Notes on Mark Bittman’s “Behind the Scenes of What We Eat”
...mber has been shooting up fast for the last 20 years. Why are they used on animals? Not so much for illness, but rather to prevent illness in animals living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, and to speed growth. They’re prophylactic. Lovely. Antibiotic failure happens to be one of my favorite doomsday scenarios.) Bittman believes that in 50-100 years we will no longer be shipping food across country or across planet–we’ll be relying on loc...
