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drokhole

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1. Chalk another one up to the "law of 'unintended' consequences"...

Sun Jul 1, 2012, 12:06 PM

Jul 2012

...wherein, as usual, no one will be held accountable.

Meanwhile, about 70% of the corn/grain/soy produced in the US goes to feed livestock (mainly herbivores), which is the kind of food that promotes and produces the diseases that the antibiotics are then required to counter. What we should be doing is converting all that land to intensively managed pasture, since it serves the same purpose (feeding animals), and will produce healthy animals without need of antibiotics (not to mention a healthier environment).

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The Deadly Addiction to Cheap Meat: How the overuse of antibiotics on livestock is making us sick [View all] marmar Jul 2012 OP

Chalk another one up to the "law of 'unintended' consequences"... drokhole Jul 2012 #1

Turbocharged farming. Gregorian Jul 2012 #2

I think so too. Mz Pip Jul 2012 #7

This isn't why I stopped eating meat... Kalidurga Jul 2012 #3

I stopped eating meat 15 years ago, RebelOne Jul 2012 #5

It is why I stopped xxqqqzme Jul 2012 #8

Factory farming makes everthing sick, water, animals, people. Thanks for the link, it has great .. freshwest Jul 2012 #4

If we don't factory farm like this, we cannot eat as much as we want whenever we want. RadiationTherapy Jul 2012 #6

In these numbers. Gregorian Jul 2012 #9