week 12 - factory farms and other version of CAFO's

Fourth week in a row for blogging. Thank goodness I can finally get a rest next week.

Every doctor I have ever had, has always given me the lecture that I shouldn't take antibiotics for colds because they are viruses. Many years ago I had a doctor explain the evolution of bacteria to me, telling me that antibiotics will become useless if we use them when we don't need them. Thus we will create resistant bacteria.  I believe it, but what is the use when we are having wide-spread, uncontrolled daily use of antibiotics on our food animals. What is the point of humans being judicious in our antibiotic use. (Well, yes, there are lots of disease in the human population that are not in the food population. Still...)

It is not like they are making disease-free food-animals. the antibotics are often given because the animals grow faster with them than without them. They are also given because our food animals are grown in un-natural concentrations and are being fed food that is unnatural for them. This makes the animals more vulnerable to disease.Our butchering/processing of animals exposes a lot of bacteria and spreads it from one carcass to another, so we are not talking about creating a product with less transmissible disease.