Factory farms creating lethal “superbugs”

This is very scary.

MCM

Antibiotic Resistance at Factory Farms “Scares the Hell Out of” Johns Hopkins Scientists
BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Meg White

I don’t like it when scientists feel the need to explain that they’re scared out of their wits, or use exclamation marks.

I also get a little nervous when they say stuff like, “We’re such a dumb species, we don’t deserve to survive on this planet,” because of the great lengths we’re going to just to kill ourselves off.

Nevertheless, I was glued to this shocking piece called simply “Farmacology” in the most recent issue of John Hopkins Magazine on the devastating effects of low-level, non-therapeutic antibiotics in industrial agriculture: http://www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0609web/farm.html.

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Originally posted: Factory farms creating lethal “superbugs”

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