Our government, here to protect us….
….The New York Times discovers the antibiotic menace. Of course, years after the problem first surfaced.
This article is revealing on several accounts:
First, the most recent warning from the FDA was published in February but no one noticed until a public service group publicized it. The government didn’t do much to spread the word.
Second, the inevitable professor of agriculture at a major university—Minnesota—jumps in to defend Big Ag.
Third, the prof lets the cat out of the bag. The antibiotics are used to “keep cows healthy”…not to cure a sick cow. A cow on pasture is as healthy a creature as there is. It is only when you feed them grain, confine them, and otherwise treat them unnaturally that they get sick. The antibiotics are required as a preventative.
Thanks to Ed Taylor for the link.
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Edward Taylor
I like the line:
“It is only when you feed them grain, confine them, and otherwise treat them unnaturally that they get sick.”
It applies equally well to humans.