True Costs of Industrial Agriculture

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By Dr. Mercola

By Dr. Mercola

“Imagine a situation where all the antibiotics of last resort — which are propping up public health everywhere in the world — become useless.” This is a statement made by Patrick Holden, farmer and director of Sustainable Food Trust in an interview with Civil Eats.1

It sums up one of the most pressing issues facing industrial meat production and, consequently, the larger public.

Eighty percent of the antibiotics used in the U.S. are used by industrial agriculture for purposes of growth promotion and preventing diseases that would otherwise make their concentrated …read more

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