Antibiotic use in Farm Animals

[Catherine]

You are lucky about the dairy farms in your area. The factory farms for meat and milk and probably eggs too are all using antibiotics.

We are setting ourselves up for a medical disaster. There are strains of bacteria that are killers and we have no protection. It is worse than the pre-antibiotic days. We have been making bacteria stronger by our practices. All the antibacterial soaps make things worse as well.

Some of the companies are making a point of saying their meat is antibiotic free. They are doing TV ads to tell people that their meat is raised without antibiotics and hormones. The growth hormones are just as dangerous.

How ironic, we have found ways to mass produce food, but now the food is not safe to eat.