Obama's FDA Quietly banning antibiotics in livestock production

this is something unexpected and welcome! Thanks for posting!!

And in case anyone was wondering, they'll still be able to get prescriptions for sick animals. They just won't be able to mix the stuff in the feed for an entire herd/flock/gaggle/whatever of healthy animals to make them grow faster. This should cut down on the rate at which bacteria become resistant to antibiotics by a pretty significant amount. It won't make the cost of food go up by any real amount, either. Studies have been done that showed simply feeding the animals a little more pretty much made up the difference. So there's no real downside, unless you have stock in a pharmaceutical company.

The pharmaceutical industry will be fighting this tooth and nail too. Pfizer, Bayer, and GSK poured ridiculous amounts of money into defeating this sort of thing in the past.

I dont buy chicken from the store anymore, they use a lot of antibiotics, we raise our own now

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I hope it doesn't get strangled on it's way to reality.

--by publicizing it more.

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:woohoo: