Those eating plant-based have a reduced load of antibiotic resistance genes in their gut.

The combined lobbying might of Big Ag and Big Pharma has prevented the United States from following the recommendations of nearly every major medical and public health entity to restrict the use of live-saving drugs to prop up agribusiness. Shame on the animal agriculture and pharmaceutical industries. More on this unacceptable practice in:
• Antibiotics: Agribusinesses’ Pound of Flesh (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/antibiotics-agribusinesses-pound-of-flesh/)
• Past the Age of Miracles: Facing a Post-Antibiotic Age (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/past-the-age-of-miracles-facing-a-post-antibiotic-age/)
• Superbugs in Conventional vs. Organic Chicken (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/superbugs-in-conventional-vs-organic-chicken/)
• Foster Farms Responds to Chicken Salmonella Outbreaks (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/foster-farms-responds-to-chicken-salmonella-outbreaks/)
• Urinary Tract Infections from Eating Chicken (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/urinary-tract-infections-from-eating-chicken/)
• What About Kosher and Organic Chicken? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-about-kosher-and-organic-chicken/)
• The Human Health Effects of Cultivated Meat: Antibiotic Resistance (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-human-health-effects-of-cultivated-meat-antibiotic-resistance/?queryID=414467dd32a9cb86d3d5d130269f78f6)

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