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Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." What a paragraph! This sparse, 52-word opening of our Constitution did not merely launch a fledgling nation--but a bold experiment in democratic idealism.
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Factory-farm drug dealers
Independent researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists recently issued a report revealing that livestock are being fed even more massive doses of antibiotics than the drug companies and industrialized agribusiness corporations have admitted.
The drugs are not used to treat animal diseases, but simply as a cheap way to fatten the animals. While 3 million pounds of antibiotics are used each year to treat humans, the UCS reports that industry feeds 3.7 million pounds to cattle, 10.3 million pounds to pigs, and 10.5 million to poultry.
The nontherapeutic use of antibiotics means fatter profits for drug and livestock producers, but it poses a real danger to you and your family's health. Such overdosing means that bacteria with a natural resistance to a given antibiotic survive in the animals, becoming strains of "superbugs" that can't be killed by that antibiotic.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control report that salmonella bacteria are now being found with immunity to the antibiotic commonly used to treat the most severe cases of salmonella food poisoning—an antibiotic related to those used to fatten livestock.
To stop this dangerous profiteering, call the UCS: 202-332-0900.