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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3041623" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>the meat industry are losers. the last highlighted part is the most important. this is from michael gregers best seller "how not to die". i would rather pay a penny extra per pound and have antibiotic drugs, than not pay a penny and die from simple things like a cut. but the meat industry never gave us that choice. this is a free market miracle:</p><p></p><p></p><p>post-Antibiotic Age</p><p>Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, recently warned that we may be facing a future in which many of our miracle drugs no longer work. She stated, “A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee could once again kill.”147 We may soon be past the age of miracles.</p><p></p><p>The director-general’s prescription to avoid this catastrophe included a global call to “restrict the use of antibiotics in food production to therapeutic purposes.” In other words, only use antibiotics in agriculture to treat sick animals. But that isn’t happening. In the United States, meat producers feed millions of pounds of antibiotics each year to farm animals just to promote growth or prevent disease in the often cramped, stressful, and unhygienic conditions of industrial animal agriculture. Yes, physicians overprescribe antibiotics as well, but the FDA estimates that <strong>80 percent of the antimicrobial drugs sold in the United States every year now go to the meat industry</strong>.148</p><p></p><p><strong>Antibiotic residues can then end up in the meat you eat. Studies have revealed that traces of such antibiotics as Bactrim, Cipro, and Enrofloxacin have been found in the urine of people eating meat—even though none of them was taking those drugs.</strong> The researchers concluded: “Consumption amounts of beef, pork, chicken, and dairy products could explain the daily excretion amount of several antibiotics in urine.”149 These antibiotic levels can be lowered, however, after merely five days of removing meat from the diet.150</p><p></p><p>Nearly every major medical and public health institution has come out against the dangerous practice of feeding antibiotics to farm animals by the ton just to fatten them faster.151 Yet the combined political might of agribusiness and the pharmaceutical industries that profit from the sales of these drugs has effectively thwarted any effective legislative or regulatory action, <strong>all to save the industry less than a penny per pound of meat.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3041623, member: 56035"] the meat industry are losers. the last highlighted part is the most important. this is from michael gregers best seller "how not to die". i would rather pay a penny extra per pound and have antibiotic drugs, than not pay a penny and die from simple things like a cut. but the meat industry never gave us that choice. this is a free market miracle: post-Antibiotic Age Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, recently warned that we may be facing a future in which many of our miracle drugs no longer work. She stated, “A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee could once again kill.”147 We may soon be past the age of miracles. The director-general’s prescription to avoid this catastrophe included a global call to “restrict the use of antibiotics in food production to therapeutic purposes.” In other words, only use antibiotics in agriculture to treat sick animals. But that isn’t happening. In the United States, meat producers feed millions of pounds of antibiotics each year to farm animals just to promote growth or prevent disease in the often cramped, stressful, and unhygienic conditions of industrial animal agriculture. Yes, physicians overprescribe antibiotics as well, but the FDA estimates that [B]80 percent of the antimicrobial drugs sold in the United States every year now go to the meat industry[/B].148 [B]Antibiotic residues can then end up in the meat you eat. Studies have revealed that traces of such antibiotics as Bactrim, Cipro, and Enrofloxacin have been found in the urine of people eating meat—even though none of them was taking those drugs.[/B] The researchers concluded: “Consumption amounts of beef, pork, chicken, and dairy products could explain the daily excretion amount of several antibiotics in urine.”149 These antibiotic levels can be lowered, however, after merely five days of removing meat from the diet.150 Nearly every major medical and public health institution has come out against the dangerous practice of feeding antibiotics to farm animals by the ton just to fatten them faster.151 Yet the combined political might of agribusiness and the pharmaceutical industries that profit from the sales of these drugs has effectively thwarted any effective legislative or regulatory action, [B]all to save the industry less than a penny per pound of meat.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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