No More Bull From Beef Industry

The Livestock Groups Respond

As you might guess, they don’t want anything to do with these efforts to clamp down on their blanket use of antibiotics. They say, “there is no scientific evidence that their use of antibiotics cause a problem.” Dave Warner, a spokesman for the industry said this: “We’ve said that there needs to be some science before you go banning antibiotics that are important to food-animal production.”

But there is also no evidence — not one single clinical trial — showing that that the things in my basement, if mixed up in some random way, cause any health problems whatsoever. Should we have science before we market those to millions of Americans?

Maybe we should just adopt the common sense rule that we do need science, but to prove that new food inventions are guilty until proven innocent, instead of the other way around.