Your Vegetables May Be Laced With Antibiotics
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Careful what you eat, especially whenever you’re hypersensitive to certain antibiotics. Recent studies have shown that some vegetables absorb the antibiotic chemicals from the soil they’re grown in. Why? Animal manure.
In our vast food chain, it seems that we have come across the elemental irony. Humans are now being penalised by their own attempts to optimize the animal and fertiliser industries. Rather than people being superior to animals and plants in the food chain, we are now being “kicked down the pants,” as we say.
Here’s the explanation: Animals raised for human consumption are often fed antibiotics called for to make them stronger and larger, making them more marketable animals, according to the Journal of Environmental Quality’s report on antibiotic infused crops. In raising these animals, their manure is also collected to be used for soil in raising crops. This muck, used as soil, has now been found to transfer the antibiotics put in the animal feed to the very plants that grow in that soil. Put differently, by feeding animals antibiotics to make the best of the market, we’re actual introducing a potential danger in human consumption. (more…)
