http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/124265/free_antibiotics_--_in_u.s._food_and_water/?page=entire
And so now what has changed for the better about this?
Nothing
Greed kills
Routine dosing of farm animals with cephalosporin antibiotics to prevent disease and promote growth would be prohibited effective Oct. 1, 2008.
"We are issuing this order based on evidence that extralabel use of these drugs in food-producing animals will likely cause an adverse event in humans and, as such, presents a risk to the public health."
No kidding. The American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, Infectious Disease Society of America, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Pew Commission have all indicted livestock antibiotics for creeping human antibiotic resistance -- including last-chance antibiotics.
"Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs
