chemicalfreelife: FOOD CHEMICALS:  ANTIBIOTICS USED IN MEAT COUNTERACT FACTORY FARM CROWDING, INCREASE PROFITS and GET PEOPLE SICK . Fatter cows, sicker people Eighty percent of the antibiotics used in this country are given to chicken, pigs, turkey and cattle, not because the animals are sick but to fatten them and prevent illness from sweeping through crowded pens. Evidence has been building for decades that the overuse of antibiotics in livestock has helped lead to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which then present a threat to human health. -Los Angeles Times .

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FOOD CHEMICALS:  ANTIBIOTICS USED IN MEAT COUNTERACT FACTORY FARM CROWDING, INCREASE PROFITS and GET PEOPLE SICK

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Fatter cows, sicker people

Eighty percent of the antibiotics used in this country are given to chicken, pigs, turkey and cattle, not because the animals are sick but to fatten them and prevent illness from sweeping through crowded pens. Evidence has been building for decades that the overuse of antibiotics in livestock has helped lead to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which then present a threat to human health.

-Los Angeles Times

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