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Rules Tighten on Use of Antibiotics on Industrial Animal Farms

Rules Tighten on Use of Antibiotics on Industrial Animal Farms | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it

What you eat is ingested into your bodily systems.

 

Alarming signs that the overuse of human antibiotics in industrial farming of animals is blunting these key weapons against human disease, governments are taking action. Clampdown aims to stop spread of antibiotic drug-resistant microbes makin it harder to treat humans.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rules-tighten-on-use-of-antibiotics

 

 

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Are giant agriculture firms trying to monopolise and patent the world's food supply?

Are giant agriculture firms trying to monopolise and patent the world's food supply? | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it

Al Jazeera does an indepth investigation:  WATCH:Does 'biopiracy' endanger world food supplies?

Seed monopolies could affect livelihoods of farmers, biodiversity. Patenting crop-breeding techniques has economic, ecological and ethical implications. Currently, five biotech corporations account for 77 percent of patents on living organisms.

http://stream.aljazeera.com/

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