Now For Some Good News—Money Talks, Antibiotics Walk—At Least A Little Bit
Okay so this doesn’t signify a revolutionary change in the way food is processed, but two items in today’s Supermarket News online edition suggest that the interests of agribusiness may be increasingly at odds with the concerns of those actually bring the foods to markets. Albertson’s announced the introduction all natural antibiotic and growth hormone […]
FDA Withdraws Veterinary Drug for Chickens
As reported in today’s USA Today, for the first time, the US Food & Drug Administration has banned the use of a veterinary drug, specifically an antibiotic used to treat diseased chickens, “because it has caused the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threaten human health.” Baytril, used since 1996 to treat respiratory illness in chickens […]