>one the resitince we are so worried about already exist in the soils all
around us, so the base argument is at the very least suspect
Charlie, it seems to me that you're missing the point. It's not a question
of the presence of a small proportion of mutants. Rather, it's about
prevalence. Your risk of personally incurring a life-threatening infection
by an antibiotic-resistant strain of a common bacterium increases greatly
as the *prevalence* of that strain in your daily exposure increases due to
overuse of that antibiotic in livestock.
--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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