Antibiotics don't work against a cold.
Someone should tell PCP's that. I have never had one who didn't over prescribe antibiotics for things that antibiotics can't cure.
Whilst you may possibly be right about the accuracy of my lighthearted comment on antibiotics, colds and chicken, at the same time we all have no idea what the factory farmers are using. As with the bovine CJD fiasco, it is the public that are again being used for testing. Big farming is uninterested in completing due diligence in their quest for increased profits. If it goes wrong they'll simply lobby for the government to pick up the tab.
Was that the Mad Cow thing you guys had some years back?
That's the one. Wobbly cows with BSE and a degenerating brain disease in humans. From feeding cattle with meat and bone meal which dramatically increased DLWG, the holy grail of beef farmers. The resulting effect was huge culls of cattle infected by BSE. The enormous costs of this untested experiment was dumped on the taxpayer. Including the compensation and replacement herds.
