2 commentsAntibiotics in animals
I meant to pass this along a while ago…
Food animal production accounts for 70 percent — 70 percent! — of the antibiotics used in the United States. That doesn’t even include the antibiotics used for animals that actually get sick.
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Yeah. It doesn’t help that we keep animals confined to small dirty pens where their chances of infection are way higher than if they were roaming around a pasture. In addition, since we now feed our cows corn instead of the grass they’re intended to eat, their stomach acidity goes up, which means that they contain acid-resistant E. Coli, which can then survive in the human digestive system (as opposed to the normal strains in cow stomachs, which can’t handle the higher acidity of the human stomach).
It’s amazing how we’ve managed to screw up things that nature does so well.
Yeah, except for cost these factory farms seem to be bad by just about every metric.
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