---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote :
It has happened. Spencer reports that E. coli bacteria, which can cause kidney failure as well as urinary tract and other infections, has changed. "We found colistin resistance over a relatively large part of the south of the country," Spencer says. And he suspects it's not happening just in China. Yup, the price of factory farming and the inhumane and unnatural keeping of animals for food production is catching up with us. You can't cram hundreds, even thousands, of meat animals together and expect they can not live without a never-ending supply of daily antibiotics in their feed. I hope this realization hasn't come too late. You can't get away with anything these days... E. Coli Bacteria Can Transfer Antibiotic Resistance To Other Bacteria http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/11/20/456689272/e-coli-bacteria-can-transfer-antibiotic-resistance-to-other-bacteria http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/11/20/456689272/e-coli-bacteria-can-transfer-antibiotic-resistance-to-other-bacteria E. Coli Bacteria Can Transfer Antibiotic Resistance To O... http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/11/20/456689272/e-coli-bacteria-can-transfer-antibiotic-resistance-to-other-bacteria Reports from China show that E. coli bacteria are increasingly resistant to the antibiotic of last resort — and can pass that resistance on to other strains of ba... View on www.npr.org http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/11/20/456689272/e-coli-bacteria-can-transfer-antibiotic-resistance-to-other-bacteria Preview by Yahoo