Brown pushes bill to cut antibiotics from animal feed

[OzarkDem]

Diners delving into a plate of chicken marsala rarely imagine the meal will make them sick. And unless the poultry is dreadfully undercooked, they’re probably right – in the short run. But over the longer haul, they’ve had good reason to regard poultry as a health threat: For years, America’s chicken farmers have been fattening their flocks on feed laced with antibiotics – even though the practice is known to accelerate the development of antibiotic resistance in humans as well as animals. Activists have been pressing poultry producers to kick the drug habit for years, and the industry is at last responding.

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/editorial/14029309.htm

[Deja Q]

1. It's been known for years. Hasn't stopped anybody.

It would be more logical just to cook the meat properly in the first place and be done with disease concerns altogether.

[lapfog_1]

2. It's not the meat that's delivered to the chef or grocery store

that they are concerned about.

It's that they raise these chicken in these huge, overpopulated barn like structures (really factories), where the chickens are stressed out and exposed to many times the number of diseases than they would be if they were a small isolate flock on a family farm. So the anti-biotics are used to keep the flock of thousands of chickens from becoming sick and dying before they have a chance to ingest enough growth hormones and cheap feed to fatten them up so they can be killed for our tables.

Modern factory farming is one of the many gross perversions that we have done to our planet and it's other inhabitants in the name of profits and human population growth.

[flvegan]

3. You REALLY think that'll "be done with the disease concerns"

altogether?

Ever wonder why cancer rates are through the roof? Heart disease? Diabetes?

How about how our 12 and 13 year old boys and girls look nothing like they did when we were that age. Hormones, steroids and antibiotics in our "meat" are killing us all before we even begin to realize it, and that's just the tip of the iceberg...sadly.

[OzarkDem]

4. Kids reaching puberty at earlier ages

Its astounding what is put into animals today. Factory farming is grotesque and unhealthy.

[SPKrazy]

5. Chicken Houses Smell More Like Antibiotics Than Chicken Shit!

at least the breeder house that I've been in did.