Editorial

Natural law

January 6, 2012

Publication: The Salt Lake Tribune

No act of Congress, no executive edict, no environmental permit or court ruling, has the power to overturn the laws of nature. Two recent news items illustrate why this matters.

The Food and Drug Administration, after years of foot-dragging, moved this week to sharply limit the agricultural uses of one type of antibiotic. The move restricts, but sadly does not end, the foolish agri-industrial practice of carpet bombing the diets and veins of various kinds of livestock with chemicals that basic biology teaches will only lead to the Darwinistic rise of super-resistant bacteria.

Those who understand the science involved have long known that the overuse of antibiotics only hastens the day when those life-saving chemicals will become useless.

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