re: #116 jaunte

One disturbing bit of news that I heard on NPR ‘Science Friday’ last week: growers in Florida have been spraying their groves wholesale with antibiotics to fight citrus greening disease.

We’ve had a lot of problems with overuse of antibiotics. Not just with plants, but with farm animals — instead of providing these animals decent living conditions, they are given antibiotics to ward off the diseases they develop because of the unhealthy living conditions they are provided to maximize profits. And then, of course, doctors prescribing antibiotics to fight viral infections, a task to which they are totally unsuited,