In addition to the lack of oversight of the hygiene at the food processing point, could some of the "food borne" outbreaks be the overuse and abuse of antibiotics in live stock that caused bacteria to develop resistance? Wasn't there an outbreak may be about two years ago, where they traced the source to be the nearby live stock (I can't remember exactly what it was though). I heard that some livestock were given antibiotics just because (actually they called it preventive measure), since we don't want to have sick calves. Now would you give antibiotics to your child who's perfectly healthy to prevent him/her from getting sick? Or give breastfeeding mothers growth hormone, so that they can produce more milk to feed their children? Some things just totally make no sense to me! Wasn't there a news report about the fact that we are now discovering more antibiotics or other medicines in our water source. What's that all about? Of course, we are told that it's trace level and water is safe to drink. Perhaps it reflects that we are living in an unhealthy society with many people needing to be medicated.
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