Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Antibiotics in our vegtables?!

I recieved this from my yahoo garden group....just copy and paste the link below to read it in its entirety.
http://lists.unc.edu/read/messages?id=4937529
Summed up it says that:
1) 70% of all antibiotics produced in the USA is fed to animals;
2) 25 MILLION pounds per year are fed to HEALTHY animals;
3) powerful antibiotics not approved for human consumption are given
to animals;
4) large amounts of these antibiotics are in the animal manures;
5) treating manure with high temperatures does not remove antibiotics;
6) vegetables absorb the antibiotics.

The end result is that WE are ingesting large quantities of powerful
antibiotics.

I recommend the article for your education on this important topic.

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