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- "and fend off diseases that can spread when livestock are raised in crowded conditions."
Well bucko, maybe you'd do well to stop raising these animals in SOBIBOR style concentration camps!!!
"You give it to them because you want them to be healthy," Kronlage said. "
Aint working, it's making things WORSE you idiot.
"The FDA, the CDC, and the Department of Agriculture are now urging farmers to stop feeding antibiotics to healthy animals. The industry is fighting back. "
Urging eh? maybe it's time to pass a LAW banning this feeding of controlled drugs to livestock this way, you need a prescription from a doctor to even get penicillin or tetracycline from a pharmacy, why should these animal murderers be able to buy 50 pound barrels of the stuff over the counter and just feed it to livestock anyway they feel like??
Antibiotics were not designed to be GROWTH drugs!!! - Reply to this comment
- We have known this for 25 years, antibiotics are dangerous to use and the health effects on the people that eat the meat are well documented. So, why has this taken so long and why is there really no teeth in the law and why will there be no enforcement?
That is an easy question. Our Scoundrels and Thieves that we call Legislators think that their personal fortunes are more important than the health of their constituents. The Scoundrels and Thieves believe that the people are too stupid to think for themselves and that the profits of the major pharmaceutical companies are more important than our health.
Like Joe Biden who never listens to anything because he never shuts his mouth our Legislators never studied the issues in animal health they just voted like they were told and then cashed the check. - Reply to this comment
- Nursing organizations nationwide have expressed their opposition to non-therapeutic use of medically important antibiotics by supporting the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (S. 619/H.R. 1549. This opposition is based on the increase in antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic resistance continues to be a growing problem in the U.S. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) roughly 2 million patients get an infection in a hospital, and about 90,000 of those patients die as a result of that infection.
Get involved today - go to the Health Care Without Harm's Protect Antibiotics Toolkit at http://www.noharm.org/us_canada/nurses/protect_antibiotics.php - Reply to this comment
- This topic is important for the improvement of human and animal health. Check out a few videos made by Registered Nurses concerned about the increasing use of antibiotics and hormones in our livestock.
Go to Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6pDvnoT_l0
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sicQXOhXpUU
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbvfJYRkg2k - Reply to this comment
- I raise pigs and the ONLY reason they need to use antibiotics is because many commercial hog raiser raise the hogs in too close of confinement to be healthy. When each farmer raised a few hogs each there was no need to use antibiotics. FOUR corporations now raise most of the hogs raised in the US today, and they only care about maximizing profits. Back when farmers raised them, they also eat a few of them, and they were a lot more concerned about raising safe and healthy food.
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- Why is the FDA REQUESTING that this dangerous practice end? Haven't they seen the studies from other countries? Antibiotics should only be given to fight disease not blanket application for reasons such as making live stock bigger. We are paying the price for this in the resistant strains killing people.
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- I am against feeding animals all these drugs. They would be unnecessary if the animals were kept in humane conditions in the first place.
Not to mention, who knows what these antibiotics are doing to worsen obesity and other health issues in humans? - Reply to this comment
- greedy ignorant Farmers
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- The agribusiness euphemism for antibiotic use to fatten them up is "feed efficiency." I'd heard about this off-label use years ago and was pleased that my e-mail to Chicago's WTTW about this was aired a few days ago. The "raised in crowded conditions" in the story refers to what are called "Confined Animal Feeding Operations" - the acronym is "CAFO." Interested readers can plug these terms into Search engines to learn more quickly.
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- Just look at those animals, dirty dogs! And you are worrying about antibiotics!
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