Extremely crowded conditions, poor ventilation, and filth in factory farms cause such rampant disease in pigs that 70% of them have pneumonia by the time they are sent to the slaughterhouse. In order to keep pigs alive in conditions that would ordinarily kill them and to promote unnaturally fast growth, the industry keeps pigs on a steady diet of the antibiotics that we depend on to treat human illnesses. This overdose of antibiotics has led to the development of "Superbacteria," on antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains. The ham, bacon, and sausage that you are eating may make the drugs that your doctor prescibes the next time you get sick completely ineffective.
Bon appetite!
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