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Postscript: California's Proposition 2 did pass and became the Standard for Confining Farm Animals Initiative. How often California leads the way. Step by step progress is being made. But it took seven years for this to be implemented. It went into full effect in 2015. Now how do we get this to be a national standard? So far it's a slow struggle state by state.
Many of these cruel farming practices are also increasing human disease. Bird flu is almost certainly the product of this. And now we are entering an era when we may actually lose the ability to use antibiotics to combat disease. Guess how we got the MCR-1 resistance gene. If you guessed "agricultural abuse of antibiotics in farm animals", you guessed correctly.
Postscript: California's Proposition 2 did pass and became the Standard for Confining Farm Animals Initiative. How often California leads the way. Step by step progress is being made. But it took seven years for this to be implemented. It went into full effect in 2015. Now how do we get this to be a national standard? So far it's a slow struggle state by state.
Many of these cruel farming practices are also increasing human disease. Bird flu is almost certainly the product of this. And now we are entering an era when we may actually lose the ability to use antibiotics to combat disease. Guess how we got the MCR-1 resistance gene. If you guessed "agricultural abuse of antibiotics in farm animals", you guessed correctly.
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