Should living things, like ourselves for example, worry about something called an “antibiotic”? Geezer finds the word disturbing. And as it turns out, lots of scientists are worried about antibiotics too, because, as this piece in the Scientific American points out, antibiotics have the biotics surrounded.
For many years now, health-minded foodies have known that most of the meat in supermarkets is loaded with antibiotics (In the US, 25 million pounds of antibiotics are used a food additives for livestock each year). Now scientists have learned that the stuff is in vegetables too, traveling from manure to earth to root systems. Why do we care? Because the more antibiotics we put in our bodies the more likely it is that bacteria in our bodies will develop a resistance those antibiotics, rendering useless the best defenses against many diseases.
Read more in this longish piece in the Scientific American.