I have to share, my husband, for years, made fun of me for “wasting” our money on organic chicken, beef, and pork. I would say “honey, I am NOT feeding my kids meat laden with antibiotics, hormones, and other crap.”
Furthermore, the conditions in which animals are raised in factory farms is not only incredibly inhumane, its DISGUSTING! They live in their own feces, often develops sores, etc, due to their crowded living conditions. Which is WHY they are fed antibiotics like its their food, to inhibit diseases which would normally grow in such living conditions.
Apparently, a superbug may be putting several million women at risk for a hard to treat bladder infection. I always thought it was common sense, if we ingest meat full of antibiotics, wont’ we become immune to its medicinal effects?
Anyway, the article is “food for thought” !
This a great article from ABC news.
A growing number of medical researchers say more than 8 million women are at risk of difficult-to-treat bladder infections because superbugs – resistant to antibiotics and growing in chickens – are being transmitted to humans in the form of E. coli.
I agree, Elena. It seems only logical that if antibiotics are overused, they soon become ineffective.
Factory farming is a way to mass produce meat, I get that, but it so unhealthy on so many levels. Not only for human consumption, not only cruel to the animal, but horrible for the environment. Remember that pig farm, in mexico, that was in the news, and the conjecture that H1N1 was a virus that my have originated from the pigs?
I don’t want to get that up close and personal with meat I eat. It’s sort of the same reason I don’t watch the ASPCA commercial in the Arms of an Angel. Click. They won’t get a red cent from me as long as they extort money that way. There are other ways.
Playing How Much is that Doggie in the Window would get me to open my check book just on the cuteness factor. An eyeball hanging out of the socket while heart-wrenching music is played, not so much.
About 3 times a year I like a good hot dog fest. Now I know I am going to get a certain amount of stuff I dont want to talk about or think abot in that hot dog. Please…do me a favor…let’s just for that doy, not have to think about it. I promise I will only eat one 3 times a year in exchange for not being grossed out.
The true cause of the swine flu.
http://verydemotivational.memebase.com/tag/pig/
Sorry, more specifically this one:
http://verydemotivational.memebase.com/2012/06/26/demotivational-posters-swine-flu-2/