(US) USDA Admits Animal Cruelty Results in Human Death
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At the 14 July, 2010 House Energy and Commerce subcommittee Dr. John
Clifford, Deputy Administrator for Veterinary Services for the USDA's
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) made the
unspectacular but important admission. This opinion was joined by Dr.
Joshua Sharfstein, Principle Deputy Commissioner of the FDA. Dr. Ali
Khan, Assistant Surgeon General and the Deputy Director of the
National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
(NCEZID), Center for Disease Control and Prevention, testified that
there is "unequivocal and compelling" evidence that the use of
antibiotics in farm animals leads to drug resistance that has an
adverse impact on public health.
...
There is a likely nexus between the productivity and efficiency
approach used by factory farmers to accelerate growth of slaughter
animals, to cram as many animals as possible into the least amount of
space, to spend as little money as possible to keep the animals in
basic survivable comfort while they are trapped in crammed confinement
to await their slaughter.
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