Antibiotics: Agribusiness’s Pound of Flesh
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2014-11-07

The FDA’s suggestion that the meat industry voluntarily stop feeding antibiotics by the ton to farm animals to fatten them faster falls short of the changes needed to forestall the epidemic of antibiotic resistance.

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Note Purdue, our third largest poultry producer, recently stopped much of their antibiotic usage due to consumer pressure—a good sign!

For those not familiar with MRSA, please see my past videos on the topic:
• Airborne MRSA (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/airborne-mrsa/)
• MRSA in U.S. Retail Meat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/mrsa-in-u-s-retail-meat/)
• MRSA Superbugs in Meat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/mrsa-superbugs-in-meat)

For more on antibiotic use on the farm, see:
• Lowering Dietary Antibiotic Intake (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/lowering-dietary-antibiotic-intake/)
• More Antibiotics in White Meat or Dark Meat? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/more-antibiotics-in-white-meat-or-dark-meat/)
• Meat Mythcrushers (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/meat-mythcrushers/)
• Food Poisoning Bacteria Cross-Contamination (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-poisoning-bacteria-cross-contamination/)
• Unsafe at Any Feed (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/unsafe-at-any-feed/)
• Zero Tolerance to Acceptable Risk (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/zero-tolerance-to-acceptable-risk/)
• Past the Age of Miracles: Facing a Post-Antibiotic Age (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/past-the-age-of-miracles-facing-a-post-antibiotic-age/)
• Superbugs in Conventional vs. Organic Chicken (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/superbugs-in-conventional-vs-organic-chicken/)

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/antibiotics-agribusinesses-pound-of-flesh/ and he'll try to answer it!

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