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hedgehog

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8. Most antibiotics in the US are fed to healthy livestock -
Thu Sep 12, 2013, 06:54 PM
Sep 2013

to make them put on weight! There isn't a good explanation of the mechanism, as far as I know, but if the antibiotics are tipping the microflora in the animals in a certain direction, then we've seen a natural experiment take place for decades!

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