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Re:Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar by will_brown on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @11:42AM (#18807486)
That’s the law...but in practice the farmers (like athletes trying to pass drugs tests) cheat. So here is an article about the FDA catching antibiotics in both meat and dairy products, and the farmers were successful before they were caught because they began using antibiotics and other drugs the FDA tests don’t scan for because they aren’t supposed to be used in animals at all.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/08/391248045/fd...

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Re:Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar by NikolaeVarius on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @11:58AM (#18807632)
You could make the exact same argument for the organic food industry
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Re:Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar by will_brown on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @12:11PM (#18807789)
Well in one instance the FDA caught farmers put milk with antibiotic and other drug residue into the stream of commerce, so it’s not an arguement so much as facts.

But yes, you could spend your time arguing organic farmers load up their dairy and meat cows with antibiotics and put it in the stream of commerce without any evidence of the same, if that’s what gets you going.

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