Does this Surprise You?

Are you pissed off yet?  Hopefully you will be after reading this and if you are all ready, you'll be even more pissed off.  Get this, some estimates say that 84 percent of all antibiotics are used in livestock, with 70 percent of that being used for solely to promote animal growth.

So what you might say, but the first thing is that Pharma is not only profiting off of humans, they are also profiting off our livestock, the food we eat! Just a little research will show how deeply intermingled the FDA is with Big Pharma, so naturally the FDA 'has' a vested interest in helping Big Pharma get bigger! 

It is not a new discovery by the FDA, that the is a danger of antibiotic resistant bacteria being passed from livestock (our food) to people, this discovery is more than 30 years old!  Even after 30 years of, since 1977, the FDA has been voicing concern while Agri-business continued feeding antibiotics to their stock, our food! 

You have until August 28, 2010, to make comment on the The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals guideline that is currently open for public comment, after 60 days this FDA 'guideline' will become policy.   in FDA Deputy Commissioner Dr. Joshua Sharfstein’s own words, “This does not tell people what to do. It establishes principles and tells people how to achieve those principles.”  Yeah, Big Pharma is going to pass up the opportunity to exploit this!  What and miss out on the profit?

You can review the document by following this link -  The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals. 

Instructions for both manual and electronic comments are provided within the documet.