Susan, "Fast Food Nation" was a book, published about 4-5 years ago
now. "Supersize Me" was a movie, where a man only ate at fast food
restaurants for a month, and got ill.
 My 18 year old daughter has struggled with migraines for the last two
years, and in the process of modifying her diet, we've begun to shop at
Whole Foods to minimize additives and possible food triggers. She also
has been fighting a prolonged sinus infection, but it's often tough to
sort out her symptoms, as they overlap ("sinus pain" is often her
migraine.) She's on a prophylactic agent: nortriptyline, and her ENT
started low dose zithromax to try and suppress the sinusitis episodes
as she's headed off to college/dorm life in a couple of months. She was
actually hospitalized for her migraines in junior year: she has
pronounced migraine associated vertigo at times.
 An interesting note: I read an article on how the "valsalva
maneuver"--baring down, can trigger migraines, and since graduation,
her saxophone hasn't been played, and she's not symptom-free, but
improved. (Also, the crazy noise level of the jazz band couldn't have
helped.)
 It makes me crazy to see the adds for "corn fed beef": they're
ruminants, they weren't meant to be fed corn, it makes them ill and
then they need antibiotics. We have an older horse, and he's healthiest
when he's only on grass/hay with minimal grain. They're not meant to
eat that stuff.
 You are right, the corn lobby is harmful in many ways.
 I'll checky out Walmart and organic foods: it seems an oxymoron to
mention the two in the same sentence.
 Back to your original post: it let me right in, but I have a
subscription.
 Thanks for all the excellent information.
Judy

With 80% of all antibiotics manufactured in this country ending up in
feedlots and on produce, ZAAP doesn't strike me as having much of a shot
at reducing abx resistance.

It's not even addressed on that page.

Susan

As a primary care physician: I take offense at the comment that it
"takes 5 minutes to write for an antibiotic and have time for a beer
break."
 I got home hours late last night, as usual. I wrote no antibiotic
prescriptions. It's an over-simplification and insulting to make those
type of comments. Perhaps, several years ago, before the concern about
increased bacterial resistance and antibiotic over-prescribing were
initially raised, this initiative had some merit. Some infections
require antibiotics: I've personally seen a child be denied antibiotics
for a cellulitis, who ultimately ended up hospitalized within a day
with a severe infection, other patients denied antibiotics who ended up
with pneumonia. It's a judgement call, not a simple denial. Even the
studies of antibiotics and bronchitis state that a subset of patients
benefit from them.
 I take care of kids and adults. As I see fewer children, I find fewer
battles to prescribe unneccessary antibiotics. Patients, in general,
will not fight a diagnosis of a viral infection, with no need for an
antibiotic. When I utilize "delayed prescribing": writing a script and
telling the patient that they can use it if a secondary bacterial
infection develops: the vast majority never fill the script. They just
feel empowered to monitor their symptoms and not feel a barrier to
care.
 "Beer break" is offensive. What physician drinks during the process
of providing care--an impaired one.
Judy