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According to Natural News, the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not established enforceable guidelines
for the appropriate use of antibiotics in livestock; the conventional meat
industry continues to feed about 30 million pounds of these drugs annually to
these animals. Recent figures released by the Pew Charitable Trusts reveal that
the amount of antibiotics used in meat and poultry production now outpaces the
amount used to treat sick people by a factor of five.
An "infographic"
recently put out by that non-profit public policy group illustrates a steady
rise in animal antibiotic use since the early 2000s, despite near-steady usage
rates in humans, which recently prompted the FDA to at least acknowledge the
problem.
"[W]hile human antibiotic
use has leveled off at below 8 [million] pounds annually, livestock farms have
been sucking in more and more of the drugs each year -- and consumption reached
a record nearly 29.9 [million] pounds in 2011," writes Tom Philpott for Mother
Jones. "To put it another way, the livestock industry is now consuming
nearly four-fifths of the antibiotics used in the U.S.
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Although "USDA Organic"
standards and labels prohibit the use of GMOs or Concentrated Animal Feeding
Operation (CAFO) confinement practices, the overwhelming majority of
non-organic foods in grocery stores or supermarkets today fail to reveal
whether or not they likely contain GMOs or come from a factory farm supply
chain. Up to 90 percent of U.S.
To see some fascinating and
interesting clips regarding the horrifying truth about the antibiotic issue and
more, one can easily log onto:
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