The Cost of Meat—The Public Health Argument This continues from
"The Cost of Meat—Too High To Pay." The Public Health Argument
covers the methods used by factory farms to boost production and
profits at the cost of public health. The topics covered will be
food-borne illness, irradiation, the use of antibiotics and
growth hormones, and the feed we give to the animals we
eventually eat ourselves. The following information is taken
from John Robbins' The Food Revolution. The references I list
here are not as detailed as his endnotes (page numbers, dates,
etc.), but should be sufficient information to find through a
quick search on the web. If any information does not have a
source listed, it did not have a source cited in The Food
Revolution. - Given the way livestock are raised and slaughtered
today, there are risks now in virtually all U.S. meats, dairy
products and eggs of food-borne illness. - The Salmonella,
Campylobacter, E. coli, and other bacteria that sicken, cripple,
and even kill U.S. consumers stem