Tag: antibiotics
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Chipotle, Hypocrites No More, To Use Antibiotic Treated Beef (Maybe)
No lie, folks. Turns out, when beef cattle numbers are at a 60-year low the niche markets that Chipotle buys from suffer too. News hit Tuesday that Chipotle can’t find enough natural beef to meet the demand for their customer base and headlines screamed that the Denver-based chain would have to use beef that has been treated with antibiotics…
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Chipotle Strikes a Nerve with Grammy Commercial
10:30 pm Sunday: I’m so livid right now, I can’t even form a coherent sentence. So I may have to come back and finish this post in the morning. ********* Monday morning/afternoonish: Ok, I’m back. A good night’s sleep and a few deep breaths has me calmed me down enough that now I can at least form…
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Delving Further into Antibiotic Use
Happy Monday! As a brief follow up to this post, I found a podcast about antibiotic use in food animals from the AVMA media website. In this podcast, Dr. Scott Hurd, an associate professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine at Iowa State University, discusses quantitative risk assessments of antibiotic resistance in humans. He does…
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Antibiotics Safe for Livestock Use
Just like we’ve been sayin’ all along… The Government Accountability Office released a report that stated there isn’t sufficient evidence to warrant a study into a link between antibiotic use in food animals and antibiotic resistance in humans. Did you get that? Here, I’ll say it again. GAO said “these data [collected by USDA] lack crucial details necessary…
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Leaky Mouth Syndrome – Educate Yourself First
(graphic courtesy of http://www.wesoldbooks.com) Props to Natalie Morales of The Today Show who told Suzanne Somers that she didn’t have ‘doctors as experts’ to back up Somers’ claim of antibiotics in meat causing ‘leaky gut syndrome, lupus and MS’. Morales also pointed out that there is very little scientific proof backing up Somers’ claims. Morales…