Thursday, February 3, 2011

Weird Science, Revisited

Here is another thought about the weight gain story below. Ranchers feed antibiotics to cattle to foster weight gain in meat animals.

We humans take antibiotics for a variety of illnesses, many of which are viral and therefore entirely inappropriately dosed. Plus we eat the beef which has been dosed with antibiotics.

If antibiotics are widely dispersed in the environment, and if they cause weight gain in cattle, might they not also be causing weight gain in other species including ours?