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“…According to Environmental Science News, two studies at the University of Minnesota said that crops absorb the antibiotics in soil that was previously the site of livestock. It seems our society is becoming so overwhelmed by antibiotics that even vegetarians can’t escape. But to be fair, it’s not just vegetarians that are getting a bad hand here. Green eaters that look for antibiotic-free meats are now getting them in places that they would never expect.

“Around 90 percent of these drugs that are administered to animals end up being excreted either as urine or manure,” said Holly Dolliver, a member of the Minnesota research team and now a professor of crop and soil sciences at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. “A vast majority of that manure is then used as an important input for 9.2 million hectares of (U.S.) agricultural land.”