Click on the title to read an editorial trumpeting the concerns I aired in class recently. In the name of profit maximization, our livestock industry is regularly pumping antibiotics into perfectly healthy animals as a precaution. As we ingest the food and antibiotics, their potency to fight disease in our bodies diminishes and viral strains develop that are immune to them. MRSA is an example that has killed 18,000 in the last year; more people than have died from A.I.D.S..
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