Farm Animals Get 80 Percent of Antibiotics Sold in U.S.

[Bones]

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Two weeks ago, I broke the news of a new FDA report that estimated for the first time the amount of antibiotics sold in the United States every year for use in agriculture: 28.8 million pounds.

That long-awaited report didn’t answer a crucial question: What volume of antibiotics are sold in the United States each year for human use. It’s a crucial question because, in answer to concerns about antibiotic resistance arising on farms, the answer has always been that human medicine is equally culpable because it uses similar volumes of antibiotics.

The only research that has attempted to answer that question is contained in a decade-old report by the Union of Concerned Scientists that put the proportion of antibiotics going to animals at 70 percent of the U.S. total.

Way to go USDA for allowing such filth to be fed to Americans. You really are Monsanto's and Cargill's bitch, aren't you? Bravo.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Say 2 Hail Marys an 3 Our Fathers and you will feel better, Bones.

 

[random3434]

Update: Farm Animals Get 80 Percent of Antibiotics Sold in U.S. | Wired Science| Wired.com

Two weeks ago, I broke the news of a new FDA report that estimated for the first time the amount of antibiotics sold in the United States every year for use in agriculture: 28.8 million pounds.

That long-awaited report didn’t answer a crucial question: What volume of antibiotics are sold in the United States each year for human use. It’s a crucial question because, in answer to concerns about antibiotic resistance arising on farms, the answer has always been that human medicine is equally culpable because it uses similar volumes of antibiotics.

The only research that has attempted to answer that question is contained in a decade-old report by the Union of Concerned Scientists that put the proportion of antibiotics going to animals at 70 percent of the U.S. total.

Way to go USDA for allowing such filth to be fed to Americans. You really are Monsanto's and Cargill's bitch, aren't you? Bravo.

If people really knew the crap they put in their bodies when they ate the flesh of animals..........................







they would still eat it.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

You could not breed MRSA without the robust effort to treat livestock first.

 

[strollingbones]

farm animals...could we define this a bit more...cause its will be mostly chickens and cows...if you want to bitch and whine.....about animals raised for food then do it but do it with a more convincing reason...ie....grain being diverted from human consumption to feed animals....downer animals being put in the food supply the list just goes on and on...the use of anitbiotics is just one of the issues....

so echo what do you think should be down with so called farm animals...stop raising them.....what

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Update: Farm Animals Get 80 Percent of Antibiotics Sold in U.S. | Wired Science| Wired.com

Two weeks ago, I broke the news of a new FDA report that estimated for the first time the amount of antibiotics sold in the United States every year for use in agriculture: 28.8 million pounds.

That long-awaited report didn’t answer a crucial question: What volume of antibiotics are sold in the United States each year for human use. It’s a crucial question because, in answer to concerns about antibiotic resistance arising on farms, the answer has always been that human medicine is equally culpable because it uses similar volumes of antibiotics.

The only research that has attempted to answer that question is contained in a decade-old report by the Union of Concerned Scientists that put the proportion of antibiotics going to animals at 70 percent of the U.S. total.

Way to go USDA for allowing such filth to be fed to Americans. You really are Monsanto's and Cargill's bitch, aren't you? Bravo.

If people really knew the crap they put in their bodies when they ate the flesh of animals..........................







they would still eat it.

Do you believe in SCIENCE? Are you aware that Humans are Omnivores? Are you aware we are SUPPOSED to consume meat products, it is required to stay healthy? It is NATURAL? It is what NATURE intended for us?

 

[Douger]

Now that we talked about antibiotics how about hormones ?
Farming. murkin style
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKS0Z59f-Go[/ame]

 

[Skull Pilot]

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Way to go USDA for allowing such filth to be fed to Americans. You really are Monsanto's and Cargill's bitch, aren't you? Bravo.

If people really knew the crap they put in their bodies when they ate the flesh of animals..........................







they would still eat it.

Do you believe in SCIENCE? Are you aware that Humans are Omnivores? Are you aware we are SUPPOSED to consume meat products, it is required to stay healthy? It is NATURAL? It is what NATURE intended for us?

Not only that but a diet high in grains is bad for humans and animals that are fed grains are not good for us either.

 

[Sarah G]

I had read some years ago that they injected animals with antibiotics to fatten them up. Make it illegal to use methods like these, it would be a start anyway.

 

[Douger]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWuKxyIDS78[/ame]

 

[strollingbones]

are bees considered
farm animals?

we treat them for mites and a lot of other stuff....if not treated they will die

cows get down with fevers...milk weed fever....cows get infections on their bags ....should they not be treated...should you not use preventative measures?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

are bees considered
farm animals?

we treat them for mites and a lot of other stuff....if not treated they will die

cows get down with fevers...milk weed fever....cows get infections on their bags ....should they not be treated...should you not use preventative measures?

I suggest we HAVE to. However someone is claiming that antibiotics are being used to somehow fatten up animals. Not sure how that works.

Simple reality is if you are going to allow supermarkets to exist, you have to take precautions with all food sources that are packaged and delivered there. Keeping the animals healthy is a REQUIREMENT.

 

[strollingbones]

the fattening is a confusion of antibiotics with growth hormones....

 

[editec]

Since our food is done on an industrial scale prophelactic antibiotics are in most meats and fowl we eat.

And yes the same animals are usually given hormones to speed up growth and make the animals bigger.

Who knows what blowback that will wreck on us over time?

I suspect, for example, that one of the outcomes is found in the earlier onset of puberty of today's young girls.

Although some people insist that is happening because of our constant exposure to some kinds of plactic.

We are all part of a gigantic experiment when it comes to the chemicals we are allowing to get into our lives, folks.

Short of becoming hermits and raising our now food, there's little we can do about it.

And even then, we cannot entirely escape the chyemical soup we've brewed up in the last century or so.

The Inuit, whose diet is still almost entirely natural, have, for example, some of the heaviest loads of chemicals that are polluting our planet, since they eat almost nothing but meat from animals on top of the food chain.

Those globally polluting chemicals are more highly concentrated in carnivors which feed off fish which feed off smaller fish which feed of plankton and so forth.

 

[strollingbones]

buy locals foods.....the less transport...the less chemicals etc needed

 

[RetiredGySgt]

buy locals foods.....the less transport...the less chemicals etc needed

Some one posted a while back about a bill that banned all home grown food. If true we have a real problem.

 

[editec]

buy locals foods.....the less transport...the less chemicals etc needed

Easy to say hard (and somewhat more expensive) to do.

 

[Mr. Peepers]

I suggest we HAVE to. However someone is claiming that antibiotics are being used to somehow fatten up animals. Not sure how that works.

It is because cows are fed corn, which is not what they are meant to eat. They are ruminants and should only eat grass. Corn makes them sick, without exception, and they are given antibiotics so that they do not die before they can be slaughtered. Corn is bad for cows and corn-fed beef is bad for people. The only thing that matters to big agra is profit. Period.

Omnivore’s Dilemma Chapter 4 Bad Human! Don’t take chemicals from strangers!

 

[Mr. Peepers]

Easy to say hard (and somewhat more expensive) to do.

No it isn't.

 

[JBeukema]

I suggest we HAVE to. However someone is claiming that antibiotics are being used to somehow fatten up animals. Not sure how that works.

It is because cows are fed corn, which is not what they are meant to eat. They are ruminants and should only eat grass. Corn makes them sick, without exception, and they are given antibiotics so that they do not die before they can be slaughtered. Corn is bad for cows and corn-fed beef is bad for people. The only thing that matters to big agra is profit. Period.

Omnivore’s Dilemma Chapter 4 Bad Human! Don’t take chemicals from strangers!

If we didn't feed them corn, E-Coli wouldn't be such an issue