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I wish he mentioned the massive dumping of antibiotics into our food supply via feedlots, et cetera. You think the fact that all the meat we eat is swimming in antibiotics for its entire life has something to do with this antibiotic resistant bacteria in our stomachs? It'd be a damn shame to undo one of the miracles of the twentieth century so your chicken sandwich is fifty cents cheaper.


There's an entire section on the use of antibiotics in agriculture.




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