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Another reason to be careful about eating meat
Excellent article. Makes scientific sense.
Besides periodic e-coli poisoning, this hints that factory farmed pigs are going to lower your resistance to infection too, or infect you. Time to eat more meat! Than I can have a colon cleanse right afterwards... and I'll clean the counter with anti-biotic cleansers, and take penicillin for a snack.
Over-using antibiotics has been done for years, on all factory farmed animals, not just pigs. Not a secret. Especially when the food and living arrangements make the animals sick in the first place, as one researcher pointed out here.
Yum.