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Lessons from Jon Barron
The Spread of Antibiotic Resistant Infections    In this week's excerpt from Lessons from the Miracle Doctors, Jon Barron examines how the dairy industry actually promotes the spread on antibiotic resistant infections.
 "Milk has played a major role in the development of the 'super bacteria' that have recently emerged to plague our health. In 1990, the U.S. Department of Agriculture allowed the dairy industry to increase the antibiotic residue standard for milk (one part per hundred million) by a whopping 10,000 percent to one part per million. The problem is that at this level of constant intake, the antibiotics destroy the probiotic colonies normally found in the intestinal tract of the cows, which then allows harmful bacteria to flourish and develop resistance to a whole range of antibiotics. There are fifty-two kinds of antibiotics and fifty-nine bioactive hormones found in milk.
One consequence of the mass-production dairy farm is an increase in cow breast infections. To cure the infections, farmers use large doses of antibiotics, which can also get into our intestinal tract, killing good bacteria colonies in human digestive systems and making us resistant to a whole range of antibiotics. Joseph Beasley, M.D., and Jerry Swift wrote in The Kellogg Report that even 'moderate use of antibiotics in animal feed can result in the development of antibiotic resistance in animal bacteria—and the subsequent transfer of that resistance to human bacteria.'
It is important to note that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) states that milk must be dumped if antibiotics exceed the one part per million now allowed. It must also be dumped if it has too many somatic cells, white cells (pus) that can indicate mastitis, an udder infection. But is it? Due to budget restrictions, the FDA can only do so much to enforce these laws, and most of us just have to hope that farmers are doing their job in proper testing. Some would say this is not the case. In 1990, an FDA survey found excessive levels of antibiotics and sulfa drugs in 51 percent of seventy milk samples taken in fourteen cities. The Wall Street Journal reported months later that FDA had actually found drugs in 80 percent of the samples.
Which leads us to the next issue—store-bought milk is often disease laden. Some estimate that nine million cows in America are not healthy; half the herds in America have cows infected with bovine leukemia virus and Crohn's disease. It doesn't take a huge mental leap to make a connection between the high consumption of milk in the United States and the fact that 40 million Americans now suffer from irritable bowel syndrome. Why are cows so diseased? Largely it is because of their tortured environments. A typical cow in nature produces an average of 10 pounds of milk per day, but mass-production dairy cows injected with growth hormones and antibiotics can produce upwards of 50 pounds of milk per day. The average California cow, for example, produces a mind-boggling 19,825 pounds of milk each year! That's got to hurt."
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