To me, this article is quite unique. People have a set conception that is delivered by the media and radical vegetarians that factory farm meat is unhealthy, but choose to ignore it. But this article, written by John Robbins, presents an even bigger issue that raises questions and concerns that are way deeper than simply "it's unhealthy to eat chemical and growth hormone infused meat". According to a vast majority of Health experts, the antibiotics that farmers put in animal feed are among the 70% that are withheld from human use. Recent studies show that the introduction of these antibiotics to human bodies allows for bacteria to evolve and surpass the antibiotic effect. This is troubling, and it is particularly mind-boggling to learn that "Seventy percent of all health-care related infections in the U.S. are resistant to at least one antibiotic, Murphy said, which already costs the nation's health care system $50 billion a year..." and "one antibiotic resistant infection, MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), now kills more Americans each year than HIV-AIDS."
I've never even heard of this issue in antibiotics--and I read the news almost every day! If all of this is true, then America needs to hear more about it. I'm honestly curious to how the intake of meat is affecting my OWN ability to fight bacteria.
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