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Update: Farm Animals Get 80 Percent of Antibiotics Sold in U.S. | Wired Science| Wired.com
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.
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 didnt answer a crucial question: What volume of antibiotics are sold in the United States each year for human use. Its 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.