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Re:FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps by tmd83 on Friday September 02, 2016 @11:53AM (#12413854)
Yup that would probably be one of the big thing in the whole antibiotic crisis and just making sure the farm environment is good once you can't rely on just flooding them with antibiotic and keep them alive.
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Re:FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps by pyre on Friday September 02, 2016 @11:58AM (#12413903)
Flooding them with antibiotics isn't just to "keep them alive." It makes them grow bigger (i.e. more meat to sell means more money). This is a big part of the resistance to ending the practice too.
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Re:FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps by tmd83 on Friday September 02, 2016 @03:31PM (#12415616)
Do you mean the antibiotics keeps them healthy and in turn bigger or antibiotics has some growth hormone type effect?
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Re:FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps by pkroll on Friday September 02, 2016 @09:18PM (#12417243)
It makes them grow bigger, like a growth hormone effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_livestock
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Re:FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps by zzalpha on Saturday September 03, 2016 @01:52AM (#12417952)
And the best part is, no one knows why.
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