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Posted Mon Aug 8 2011: from TreeHugger:
USDA Hides Damning Report Of Antibiotic Abuse on Factory Farms http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1312812485
We've covered before the horrible consequences of constantly given factory farm animals antibiotics so they don't get sick in the sickening conditions we make them live. And recently the USDA commissioned a report reviewing the current research on antibiotics, antibiotic resistant infections and farm animals. The report was pretty damning of current industry practices, as Tom Philpott summarizes over at Mother Jones. Perhaps even more disturbing, though, is that the document has since disappeared from the USDA website, apparently after the findings upset industry, and the report's author seems to have been prevented from talking to media. Have no fear, there's a cached version: A Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance....
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Modern agriculture will collapse without sustained, massive, prophylactic abuse of antibiotics!
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