My family and I have always been highly aware of the types
of food we eat. We try our hardest to buy organic food and eat a healthy diet.
The prices of food these days are so high even when buying non-organic
processed foods, the hit your wallet takes when buying organic grass-fed food
is absolutely ridiculous. When I came across this article on the npr.org
website headlining FDA Found Drugs Used in Food Animals to Be 'High Risk', I had
to stop and read it. The article goes on to explain how The Natural Resources
Defense Council or NRDC, an environmental advocacy group, acquired documents
through the Freedom of Information Act showing deplorable new findings of a
study the FDA conducted. The documents show that from 2001 to 2010, FDA
scientists studied 30 different antibiotics that were approved decades ago, and
called 18 of the drugs "high risk" because they could expose humans
to antibiotic-resistant bacteria through the food supply. The NRDC says that
since then, the FDA has ignored these findings. I believe this article is worth
reading because we must know what we are putting in our bodies, and more so we
must be aware what we are feeding are children. I find this article interesting
because FDA has continued to allow dozens of antibiotics to be used in
livestock feed, despite findings from its researchers that the drugs could
expose humans to antibiotic-resistant bacteria through the food supply. It is
disturbing to imagine what the consequences are from this ten years down the
road. What are we really putting in our bodies? I feel like the hit my wallet takes for paying the extra cash for grass fed organic meat outweighs the hit my body takes from eating the alternative.
Great Information!
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