New superbugs are at home on the farm
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- AlexKoppelman
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The antibiotics fed to the farm animals we eat may have helped to create superbugs like the drug-resistant staph bacteria known as MRSA.
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AmandaZee
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A couple of years ago, my husband had this weird urge to conduct his own 4H experiments. He's a photographer, and had taken one too many pictures of little kids with their prized livestock at the fair.
We ended up raising our own pig, and then our own cow, and then another pig. Sometimes I tell that story, and people look at me like I'm crazy, but I tell you what: It's refreshing to know what the animals have been fed and injected with when you're planning to consume them later.
The scariness of mass-raised livestock was almost enough to make me go vegetarian. Now that we're too busy to deal with raising our own, we're picky about where we buy our meat, but I still long for the day when I knew the history of the food on my table.
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AmandaZee
