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Created with Fabric.js 1.4.5 CAF O CAF O DISEASE CREW! CREW! Meet the Meet the FACTORY FARMS FACTORY FARMS CAFO ANIMALS IN THE NEWS The single biggest problem we face in infectious disease today is the rapid growth of resistance to antibiotics, said Glenn Morris, director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida. Human use contributes to that, but use in animals clearly has a part too. SUPER BUGS On farm development of antibiotic resistancecould affect human health through non-pathogenic bacteria as well. These are organisms that are in thedigestive tracts of both animals and humans, but arenot usually involved in the development of disease. Humans can ingest these organisms through consumption of animal products. According to a 2009 report by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on this subject, factory farms used a whopping 29 million pounds of antibiotics that year alone. Animals are often fed antibiotics at low doses for disease prevention and growth promotion, and those antibiotics are transferredto you via meat, and even through the animal manure that is used ascrop fertilizer. In 2011, drugmakers sold nearly 30 million pounds of antibiotics for livestock the largest amount yet recorded and about 80 percent of all reported antibiotic sales that year. 50/50 you have a 50/50 chance of buying meat tainted with drug-resistant bacteria when you buy meat from your local grocery store. The four drug-resistant pathogens in questionare Campylobacter, which causes an estimated 310,000 infections and 28 deaths per year; Salmonella, responsible for another 100,000 infections and 38 deaths annually; along with E.coli and Shigella. FOOD FOOD The Scary Link With Antibiotics & The CAFO Industry. Antibiotic resistance is a major threat to public health worldwide, and the primary cause for this man-made epidemic is the widespread misuse of antibiotics ...in CAFOs! 2011 XXX EWW... double click to change this title text! double click to change this title text! double click to change this title text! SOURCES: New York Times, Mercola.com, Perdue University. http://epolicypace.blogs.pace.edu/ double click to change this title text! double click to changethis text! Drag a cornerto scale proportionally. double click to changethis text! Drag a cornerto scale proportionally.
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