Unintended Consequences Of Factory Farming
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There’s a good article in The Washington Post about the unintended consequences of factory farming:
“Food animal production accounts for 70 percent — 70 percent! — of the antibiotics used in the United States. That doesn’t even include the antibiotics used for animals that actually get sick. That figure is for ‘non-therapeutic use’ such as growth promotion and disease prevention.”
“The heavy reliance on routine antibiotic use is a byproduct of the way we raise animals for food: packed into dim and dirty enclosures where they live amid their own filth, eat food that they haven’t evolved to digest, and are pretty much stacked atop one another.”
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