No, this isn't an article on the nutritional "benefits" of bacon. It's a note that we use some of our best tools in modern medicine to protect pigs, at the expense of humans.
Heard of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)? It's gaining ground because pigs are being given antibiotics and end up harboring the resistant bacteria.
It's not just bacon that trumps human use of antibiotics. It's beef. And a study in Australia a few years back found that prohibiting the prophylactic use of such drugs in livestock improves the chances that these bacteria can be treated in humans.
So stop giving methicillin to my food. Save it for me.
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