A little side note to the last entry about McDonald's. I was reading an article in the HEALTH section of the L.A. Times yesterday. The sub caption read as follows: "McDonald's decision to remove antibiotics from meat products couold be an effective weapon in the fight to prevent drug resistance."

It goes on to explain that "for over half a century that farmers have been feeding poultry and some livestock the same antibiotics--penicillin,tetracycline,bacitacin" which is normally used to treat sick humans.

However it has been routinely given to healthy livestock to make them grow bigger and faster "with less feed and to become more profitable at slaughter."

I've known this for a while, and it is why I do not frequent McDonald's. There are health dangers in the consumption of meat in this country, and a gowing awareness has created a public outcry and attacks on this practice from scientists,medical organizations and special interest groups. They contend that the 'involuntary ' consumption of these drug laden meats are causing new, stronger strains of bacteria in humans, that are growing more resistant to other drugs develped to kill them. Many of these super-resistant 'bugs' can cause fatal illnesses if antibiotics can no longer resist them.

McDonald's is now taking a positive step toward eliminating this practice by 2004. The newspaper huffed and puffed about how wonderful and magnanimous of McDonald's for taking on such an endeavor. Well excuse me, but this practice has been going on for 50 years! What about all the people, and not to mention, children, who have been consuming this kind of food all this time. I also wonder about it's link to cancer and other diseases that people die from.

I still will not eat at McDonald's or any other similar fast food place. If you still want to, you might want to wait until 2004.

Food for thought.