Drugs In Your Meat

Yep, there are drugs in the meat you eat.  So much so, I think you could become an addict...lol.  Well, at least antibiotic resistant. 

So, that we know of, there are at least 450 different drugs that are administered to animals, either alone or, in combination.  These drugs are given to animals for a variety of reasons, very, very few of which are actually beneficial to consumer health.  We've got drug companies that work real hard to make sure they can sell lots of drugs to people raising cows, pigs, and chickens.  The pharmaceutical industry sells 80% of all the antibiotics that it makes in the United States to animal agriculture.  Antibiotic residues are found in the meat, other antimicrobials are found in meat.  There has been ractopamine found in meat, there has been hormones found in meat, so right there, you're talking

about four different drugs that could be in the same piece of meat.

The pharmaceutical company is supposed to show the safety of animal drugs.  They're not really testing to see what the impacts of these drugs are on humans.  They're really looking to see what the impacts of these drugs are on animals.  When we try to get information on some of the health studies and the environmental studies from federal agencies, we get back page after page of blacked out information because the company claimed confidential business information.  Consumers have no idea what is in the products that they consume.  So, how sick something makes me and how bad it pollutes the environment is a secret for a company.  In the animal agriculture industry, as in the tobacco industry, these companies really have a vested interest in making sure that the public doesn't have information about their effects and what risks are really posed to consuming them.  You have this system where animals are living in their own waste, they're living next to animals that are sick or, even dead, and they're stuck in cages with these animals, that bacteria tends to spread, that the pathogens that are being created in these filthy conditions are breeding resistance to antibiotics and the public are becoming exposed to those.  We already have people dying.  From salmonella and other things that you eat, we have about 3,000 people die every year in the United States.  That's more than the number of people that were killed in 9/11 in the Twin Towers in New York.  If we had some terrorist organization killing 3,000 people a year, we would be all over it.  So, why aren't we?

Disclaimer:  Most if not all of this is copied from "What The Health" video.  You guys really need to watch these videos if you haven't already.