By Megan Bedard
May 20, 2010
It probably makes your stomach turn to hear that you could be unknowingly ingesting antibiotics that are used to treat cows. Well, swallowing all those antibiotics is making other parts of your body do a 180 as well. A new study released by scientists at the University of Hong Kong suggests that the overuse of antibiotics in the food industry is causing resistance among humans to certain antibiotics. In short: when farmers stuff cows with antibiotics, the cows develop resistance genes, then pass them along to us.
http://www.takepart.com/news/2010/05/19/more-factory-farms-mean-more-illness
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