Antibiotics in Cattle Not Needed?and They Make Us Sick
Ever since ranchers stopped grazing their cattle, and started fattening them up more quickly with corn, they’ve had to dose them with antibiotics, since cows can’t digest corn easily and it often makes them ill. Corn feeding also produces beef with high levels of cholesterol, unlike grass-fed beef, so corn-fed beef may be one of the causes of heart disease. But the biggest problem is that ingesting so many antibiotics in our food means they no longer work for us when we need them.
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