80% of US antibiotics are given to animals. What's the effect on human health, why should you be worried and what should you be doing?

1. Meat,
Antibiotics
& You

2. 80%
of antibiotics are
given to food animals
http://www.realclearscience.com/2010/12/28/farm_animals_get_80_of_antibiotics_sold_in_us_239051.html

3. 80%
of antibiotics are
given to food animals

4. Why should it
matter to you?

5. Antibiotics can get into
animal flesh

6. Antibiotics from
agriculture can
get into your
drinking water
supply

7. Bacteria can become
immune to antibiotics
after exposure

8. The more antibiotics in
our environment, the more
bacteria are resistant to
them

9. Next time you’re sick
will the antibiotics work?

10. Why give
antibiotics to
animals?

11. Animals are
raised in
CAFOs
If you want to continue to
eat meat then...

12. Concentrated

13. Animal

14. Feeding

15. Operations

16. where they remain
in their manure.
This allows
harmful bacteria
to grow, requiring
antibiotics to keep
the animals alive..

17. CAFOs cause huge
environmental damage, leaking
waste into the water table.

18. Any reduction in demand for
CAFO products is good.

19. What should you
do about it?

20. Go vegetarian

21. It’s better for
your overall health

22. There are no trace
amounts of antibiotics in
vegetables

23. If you want to continue to
eat meat then...

24. Only eat grass-fed
animals...

25. “Treat meat as a
flavouring or special-
occasion food”
Michael Pollan

26. Clean meat is expensive, so
eat less, and less often.
You’ll be healthier.

27. Live your life the way your body evolved to

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