Whyte walked away with 858,957 for just 401 days employment. The government already pays 1.4 million a year for 24-hour security at Major's Huntingdon home. Staff who retired from the firm with 35 years service have traditionally received a 40 voucher each Christmas. Not any more. Many of us depended on it at Christmas.
Agribusiness routinely feeds antibiotics to animals to promote quicker growth and fatter profits.
Over 70 percent of all antibiotics produced in the US are used for this. Campaigners have long warned that this practice could risk spreading antibiotic resistance to the animals, the wider environment and to humans. Such resistance could make it more difficult to treat lethal bacterial infections. Now scientists at the University of Illinois have confirmed that such fears are justified. They found that resistance to the important antibiotic tetracycline was developing in bacteria in the guts of pigs fed the drug to boost their growth.