[ExI] The post-antibiotic era

[Henry Rivera]

> On Nov 20, 2013, at 2:39 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> And we’d lose, as well, a good portion of our cheap modern food
> supply. Most of the meat we eat in the industrialized world is raised
> with the routine use of antibiotics, to fatten livestock and protect
> them from the conditions in which the animals are raised. Without the
> drugs that keep livestock healthy in concentrated agriculture, we’d
> lose the ability to raise them that way. 

I hate to say it, but this might be the only positive outcome of the loss of use of antibiotics. Of course, I'm way biased as a vegetarian and opponent of the deplorable conditions in which most of these animals are raised. Anyone seen the movie Food Inc.? It's worth checking out. 
-Henry