Beef. . . Its What's For Dinner!

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

If there weren't antibiotics in the beef, then THERE WOULD BE BIOTICS IN YOUR BEEF!

Do you want BIOTICS in your beef? I DON'T THINK SO!

Only because they also spend their time confined in close quarters, knee-deep in their own manure, and they eat a corn-based diet, which destroys their intestines and allows opportunistic infections to flourish. I believe the stat was that when you switch a cow to a grass diet (you know, like they evolved to eat,) 80% of the bad bacteria in their gut dies off within 3 weeks, but I'd have to go back to find the reference for that.

The funny thing is that when they compared the two, the ammonia-soaked (literally) chicken meat from the stacked-cage, windowless feed lot still had approximately 10 times the bacterial culture than the open-air, free-roaming chicken meat with no antimicrobial treatments at all.