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The Guardian reports that according to a Bureau of Investigative Journalism study, colistin, an "antibiotic of last resort," is used by the tonnes by Indian farms to make the poultry gain weight a little bit faster. And all of this is perfectly legal. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls antibiotic resistance "a major threat to public health".
Another reason to eat less meat I guess. Like we needed one.
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(Score: 0) by XivLacuna on Friday February 02 2018, @06:34PM (18 children)
This will breed up resilient bacteria and we'll bring infected people over in the H1B visa program. All so corporations can save a few shekels.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @06:40PM (6 children)
The article didn't mention they were giving chickens antibiotics for the purpose of eating them.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Friday February 02 2018, @06:48PM (3 children)
Sorry for the rhetorical question, but for what other reason would you desire to quickly fatten up a multitude of chickens?
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(Score: 5, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Friday February 02 2018, @07:58PM
To finally solve those math problems that start with "First, assume a spherical chicken."
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @08:00PM (1 child)
Well, I can think of at least one other, but the article doesn't mention vaseline.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @10:26PM
It's India.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday February 02 2018, @06:48PM
> The article didn't mention they were giving chickens antibiotics for the purpose of eating them.
TFS:
If you only tried to make an obesity simulator, would you use the word "poultry" ?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Immerman on Friday February 02 2018, @09:56PM
It doesn't matter *what* you do with the chickens - they serve as incubators for antibiotic resistant bacteria, which then spread through the environment potentially sharing their newfound antibiotic resistance with other species of bacteria as they go, since bacteria sex is more like an inter-species DNA swap meet than anything we'd recognize.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @07:36PM
Since we're all nerds here who value accuracy, The Indian Rupee [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday February 02 2018, @07:46PM
I'll leave you all a page from Chew [blogspot.com], a 60-issue comic series I really enjoyed, one element of which is an avian flu that ostensibly got out of control.
(Score: 2, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Friday February 02 2018, @09:07PM (3 children)
Our H-1B program is a disaster. Right now, widespread abuse in our immigration system is allowing American workers of all backgrounds to be replaced by workers brought in from other countries to do the same job, sometimes for lesser pay. People don't like to say this, it's not politically correct, but most of the H-1B folks come in from India, they're Indians. And President Obama said they get to bring their wives. A guy comes over, his wife comes over. And baby makes three, four, five -- you get so many anchor babies, and suddenly there's a lot of Indians living in America.
Jobs must be offered to American workers first. Does that make sense? Our H-1B program should include only the most skilled and highest-paid applicants and should never, ever be used to replace American workers. I've ordered a full review of our H-1B program, from many departments. I ordered them to make a full report to me. Let's buy American & hire American.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Friday February 02 2018, @10:04PM (2 children)
But what about all that wonderful food served in Indian restaurants. Without Indians there would be no Indian restaurants. I guess the realDonaldTrump is only fixated on BigMacs.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Snow on Friday February 02 2018, @10:56PM
Mexicans make fantastic Indian food.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday February 02 2018, @11:05PM
They make terrific American food all over the world. Japan, they have a great cheeseburger, they named a cheeseburger after me. The Trumpburger. Such an honor!
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday February 02 2018, @09:51PM (4 children)
Tell me honestly, how many Jews do you think are in India?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Informative) by requerdanos on Friday February 02 2018, @10:19PM (3 children)
Well, as practicing Jews, we can look at it this way. The CIA World Factbook [cia.gov] puts India's "religion" breakdown as follows:
... Of a population the same source puts at ~1.3 billion.
So, Jewish folks would probably fall under "other and unspecified" here, or less than 2/100*1.3 billion=26,000,000.
Looking at ethnicity, the factbook again has some stats for us...
And we're left with the "Mongoloid and other" group, or less than 3/100*1.3 billion=39,000,000.
The numbers like 26 million and 39 million must be taken with a grain of salt, given that they include all of the "other" categories, not just ours.
A more helpful answer, if less precise, would probably be something like "dozens if not hundreds or thousands."
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:18AM (2 children)
What's this "ours?" I'm not Jewish. If anything I'm some kind of weird Deist or Spiritualist.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Saturday February 03 2018, @12:28PM (1 child)
Seriously? It's the group that "we " are looking at. Looking at the CIA world factbook is not excessively complicated, and your spiritual beliefs only get in the way if you are real tangled up about them.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:19PM
this exchange was hilarious
other includes everything not listed, and offense was taken that one of the residents clearly different from the conformists presently in the lead -- somehow thinks you called them a Jew and was quick to point out in several ways that whatever they believe in, it's not that.
nor any of the other items in the list, thus firmly placing them in the "other" category.
if someone cannot determine the difference between themselves and whatever it is they state they cannot be, there is not much of a difference after all.
sort of like how rampaging barbarians couldn't tell the difference between Romans and Italians that lived outside of the prestigious city walls. They all looked like victims to the the invading forces, but the Romans have been documented as being clearly upset they were being treated badly. it was just as bad as those lesser people, yet they claimed privilege as victims. how can the invaders that are looting and pillaging and raping our women not be able to tell the difference?
ah well its like how special interest groups often conflict and compete with one another instead of combine forces to eliminate a common threat. sometimes that viewpoint is "just because we're both oppressed doesnt mean i want you to have the chance to be less oppressed than me later." i dont even know what that term would be.. not schadenfreud, but really it is quite conservative to go against long term interests like that because it might help someone you dont like.