Report: FDA Turning a Blind Eye to Growing Superbug Threat

[GoLeft TV]

From Ring of Fire:

A new report from the NRDC claims that the FDA effectively turned a blind eye to the risks associated with antibiotics it approved for agricultural use. These antibiotics were allowed to be used in livestock despite posing a “high risk” to human antibiotic resistance.

According to the NRDC these drugs were allowed to remain on the market as additives in animal feed and water “despite an internal review that raised significant red flags…” and allowing the drugs to be distributed “likely exposed humans to antibiotic resistant bacteria through the food supply.”

You can read the full article here at Ring of Fire.

[CoffeeCat]

1. Because in this country--the corporations get whatever the hell they want

Big Ag needed the antibiotics to keep their animals disease-free. This way, big, industrial farms could run sloppy operations, with animals in unsafe, tight quarters and operate their farms on the cheap.

The antibiotics are a shortcut that enable them to produce cheaply and increase profits.

Who gives a flippin' damn if this poses a risk to the health and safety of Americans?

We do not count. We are not even factored into their equation. We are objects to our elected representatives and to the people who run these corporations. These big-ag companies need us to buy their product. That's it. They don't want to hear from us. They don't want to know how their business is affecting our lives or our deaths.

This is true in this situation, but also in countless others. We are all lab rats for Big Pharma and their "You might bleed from every orifice if you take this drug" pharachemicals. If people die--oh well--move on and there comes the next drug that may or may not kill us.

Banks get their way. Health-insurance companies are robbing us all. Energy companies are tracking our land and poisoning our water. Oil companies pollute our air and cause disease and dependence on fossil fuels--when we should be moving to solar and wind. Oil companies operate with faulty equipment--because they've lobbied for relaxed regulations on their manufacturing equipment--to lower their costs. As a result, we get the BP disaster and now we get to live with Corexit poisoning the ocean and sickening us--as the ocean life teems with oil. Don't get me started about the nuclear-energy companies.

Corporate America runs it all now. Welcome to America…one big democrazy.