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Not sure why the downvotes, this is a known fact. Cows are meant to eat grass for instance but because we feed them corn and soy instead (slightly cheaper), the
by ornornor 6y ago
Not sure why the downvotes, this is a known fact. Cows are meant to eat grass for instance but because we feed them corn and soy instead (slightly cheaper), they get diseases they otherwise wouldn’t get. So their foodstuff is also laced with antibiotics, which people eating the meat and milk in turn absorb.
- MengerSponge 6y agoEven if you feed livestock a totally optimal diet (e.g. grass for cows) they'll convert it more efficiently (read: they'll grow bigger from the same amount of feed) if you supplement it with low dose antibiotics. It's shockingly dangerous and should be illegal.
- nemetroid 6y agoAccording to Wikipedia, it is illegal in the EU since 2006, and in Sweden since 1986 (and partly so in the US since 2017).
- slt2021 6y agoits even worse with pig farming in populated developing countries (china), amount of antibiotics fed to pigs is staggering
- ben_w 6y agoI thought the main issue was that antibiotics make the livestock put on weight faster, and the dose to do that isn’t quite enough to kill of the bacteria? So the bacteria get a chance to evolve immunity?