Overuse of antibiotics threatens our entire food supply and our health
(NEWSER) - Al-Qaeda's attacks on 9/11 killed nearly 3,000 people, completely transforming America's approach to national security. And yet food-borne illnesses kill 5,000 Americans each year and hospitalize 325,000, but there is little interest in improving food safety, writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times . Now, however, the E. coli outbreak in Germany that killed 31 people is putting food safety front-and-center again. But the "most disgraceful" problem "is the way antibiotics are recklessly stuffed into healthy animals to make them grow faster," writes Kristof, an "Oregon farmboy who once raised sheep, cattle, and hogs." More»
