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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another house not buying organic.  I found this funny: 
"...because of all the antibiotics routinely given to animals that we eat that humans are becoming antibiotic-resistant"

yeah, it cannot possibly be the over prescription of antibiotics that people actually take themselves.[/quote]

Wow, that is a very bad assumption.

"Over 80 percent of antibiotics sold in the United States are used in animals." Source: [url]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/us/antibiotics-for-livestock-will-require-prescription-fda-says.html?_r=1[/url]

Great background info: Antibiotic use in animal agriculture [url]http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2672.1997.00280.x/pdf[/url]

With the recent research showing that allergies in children are tied to antibiotics in daily exposure (antibacterial soap, antibiotic chemicals in toothpaste, etc), the lingering residue in the tissues of livestock administered antibiotics are a big concern -- they are very likely tied to the explosion of life-threatening allergies in the past 50 years. And that's not even touching on the risks of bacterial resistance (as high as 94% in livestock administered antibiotics).

Don't even get me started on GMOs and the increasing incidence of things like celiac (the non-organic wheat genome is a Frankenstein's monster now). GMOs are a big danger because we don't fully understand how the altered genomes interact with our bodies.

Needless to say, I try to get everything from local farmers with safe practices or organic. Sucks that it's so expensive, but I have a background in the hard sciences and I can't justify spending less when I know the issues surfacing in the research.[/quote]

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