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Jul 19, 2011

''A Better Sort of Pig''

"To me, the biggest issue is not whether pigs are raised organically or "naturally"; it's whether they're raised well."

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Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Jun 2, 2011

''The High Cost of Cheap Meat''

"The point of factory farming is cheap meat, made possible by confining large numbers of animals in small spaces. Perhaps the greatest hidden cost is its potential effect on human health."

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Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Jul 12, 2010

''Antibiotics, meat a risky mix''

"Federal regulators have tip-toed around the issue of antibiotics in the nation's meat supply for years."

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Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Jul 12, 2010

''Our view on food safety: To protect humans, curb antibiotic use in animals''

"Antibiotics are modern wonder drugs, but their weakness is that they can gradually put themselves out of business."

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Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Jul 8, 2010

''Resistant to urgent action''

"Antibiotics, it’s what’s for dinner. Antibiotics, the other white meat. Antibiotics, it’s whatever the poultry industry’s slogan is."

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Jul 6, 2010

''Antibiotics and meat don't mix''

"For the American public's health, it's time for the meat industry to stop administering the drugs preventively but only to animals already ill."

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Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Apr 28, 2010

''Ban Antibiotics for Healthy Food Animals''

"Last year, an estimated 65,000 people in the U.S. were killed by drug-resistant infections—almost the number of people who succumbed to breast cancer and prostate cancer combined."

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Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Apr 18, 2010

''Cows on Drugs''

"Now that Congress has pushed through its complicated legislation to reform the health insurance system, it could take one more simple step to protect the health of all Americans."

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Apr 6, 2010

''Antibiotic Idiocy''

''The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is getting serious about the threat routine use of antibiotics in livestock poses to human health.''

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Antibiotics in Food Animal Production
Apr 3, 2010

''Pearls before swine: It's time to cut the use of antibiotics in farm animals''

"Everybody knows that it is possible to have too much of a good thing -- and that is true also of antibiotic drugs, the great lifesavers of modern medicine."

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