As if there were still some question about it, a pair of recent news items confirms the great American love affair with antibiotics. First came a new study which found that despite all warnings and guidance, children continue to be given antibiotics, whether or not their condition warrants it. They found that although only 27.4 […]
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Rethinking Antibiotics, Pesticides, Health
A few years ago, the executive chair of Google said that every two days, we create as much information as we did from the beginning of civilization through 2003. Not long after, a research group claimed that 90% of all data in the world had been created in just the past two years. The figures […]
11 Must-Reads on What Industrial Farming Has Wrought
GMOs are far from the only health and environmental risk industrial farming has wrought. The quest for profits through things like higher yields, faster and more dramatic growth cycles, and more uniform “product” has come with scant concern for how it might affect the overall health of plants or animals, quality of the food […]
Antibiotics Everywhere – Even in Your Food
No sooner had March begun than news spread about the rise of a new “superbug” that kills about half of all who contract it through bloodstream infections. Microbes like this one – called Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, or “CRE” for short – are one result of the overuse and misuse of antibiotics. And it’s not just […]