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A few weeks ago, the New York Times published a fantastic piece by Nicholas Kristof called "Our Pigs, Our Food, Our Health." Kristof, who grew up on a farm himself, argued FOR limiting antibiotic use in livestock and talked about how factory hog farms often have MRSA (drug resistant bacteria) in both hogs and humans. Well, the factory hog industry has been going NUTS about this. They say that limiting antibiotic use will make pork LESS safe. So they somehow suckered the NYT into publishing an op ed with their (bullshit) side of the issue.
And they can talk, but they can't make smart people believe their BS. On this blog, the Center for a Livable Future exposed that the National Pork Board paid for the study referenced in the recent NYT op ed. But another farmer went even further, debunking the NYT piece line by line in her blog post "Good Science or Political Agenda?."
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