While consumers may be more shocked by pink slime or the feeding of Prozac to poultry, the routine feeding of millions of pounds of human antibiotics to chickens presents a much graver threat.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the dangers of routine antibiotic use in poultry, which poses a significant health risk compared to other food controversies.
Michael Greger emphasizes that the common practice of administering human antibiotics to chickens is a more serious health threat than more sensationalized issues, such as the use of pink slime. This statement draws attention to the often-overlooked consequences of agricultural practices on human health and food safety, advocating for greater awareness and scrutiny of how animals are raised for consumption.
In practice
In a discussion about food safety regulations at a local town hall meeting.
Anyone who's promoting the exact diet that they were in previous years probably isn't keeping up with the latest science, though in general, the balance of evidence has remained remarkably consistent - centering one's diet around whole plant foods.
Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.
Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.
Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go.
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action.
Here I am at the turn of the millennium and I'm still the last man to have walked on the moon, somewhat disappointing. It says more about what we have not done than about what we have done.
One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
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