Farm use of antibiotics defies scrutiny
Story Date: 9/4/2012

 
Source: Sabrina Tavernise, NY TIMES, 9/3/12
 
The numbers released quietly by the federal government this year were alarming. A ferocious germ resistant to many types of antibiotics had increased tenfold on chicken breasts, the most commonly eaten meat on the nation’s dinner tables.

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