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posted by takyon on Friday February 02 2018, @06:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the chicken-not-so-little dept.

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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @07:26PM (16 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @07:26PM (#632115)

    Another reason to eat less meat I guess. Like we needed one.

    You are right, we did not need a reason not to eat meat. Eating meat is very healthy, and ensures that you do not suffer from chronic vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @07:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @07:32PM (#632118)

    Eat less meat != eat no meat, biased commenter.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @08:15PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @08:15PM (#632140)

    Personally, I'm interested in genetic studies that show that for some people, vegetarianism may be viable. That implies for other people, vegetarianism is not viable. This could be a way to reconcile the nutritional studies showing your claim that with the experiences of actual vegetarians who are successful at living without meat.

    Dunno if DNA will have my back personally, but they can take my bacon++ from my cold, dead hands. Well, unless they give me vat-grown bacon++ that's indistinguishable from free-range, locally-sourced, organic, sustainable, uncured, gluten-free bacon++. I'm an apex predator, and I need me some bacon. Steak works too.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday February 02 2018, @08:34PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Friday February 02 2018, @08:34PM (#632148)

      I have yet to meat a Vegetarian or Vegan who had their canines removed.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday February 02 2018, @09:57PM (2 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday February 02 2018, @09:57PM (#632189) Journal

      From what I've read it's--surprise!--more viable for people who've been practicing it as a culture for thousands of years. Which would be mainly Indian people and those Asian populations who have a long history of Mahayana Buddhism. It doesn't seem very viable for Europeans and other Caucasian stock. I know I go completely nuts if I don't at least get eggs or cheese a few times a week.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:20AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:20AM (#632286)

        So how long ago did you stop eating eggs and cheese?

        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:16AM

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:16AM (#632352) Journal

          Tried flirting with veganism a couple of years ago. It...did not go well. You know those old Looney Tunes cartoons where Wile E. Coyote or someone else looks at another character and they phase out and reappear as some kind of meat item? I swear that was beginning to happen to me. I was having nightmares about cannibalizing my own family, who in the dreams had apparently demanded I do it because they thought I'd die otherwise.

          Long story short, I am a filthy omnivore and probably never going to change it, though as soon as "vat meat" goes mainstream I won't eat anything from slaughtered animals any more. Vegetarianism *may* be do-able given the skills in Indian and Chinese food I've picked up since then, but definitely not veganism.

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    • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:23AM (1 child)

      by Immerman (3985) on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:23AM (#632291)

      Do they make gluten enriched bacon now? I'm trying to think of how you'd get wheat into bacon so that "gluten free" is anything but a pandering market-imp noise.

      • (Score: 2) by dry on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:08AM

        by dry (223) on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:08AM (#632348) Journal

        They probably lightly coat it in flour to stop it from sticking, much like some brands of frozen french fries and a lot of other stuff. That wax they put on apples, gluten based.
        I was put on tetracycline for a year or so as a teenager to treat my acne. Ever since I've had weird guts and gluten (or perhaps it is one of the other proteins in various grains) is one of the foods I have to avoid to function in modern society where it is looked down on to just shit when you get the runs.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @08:45PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @08:45PM (#632152)

    I've read that vegetarians do not suffer from vitamin and mineral deficiencies more often than those who eat meat. They're more likely to suffer from particular deficiencies, but not significantly more likely to suffer from deficiencies in general. There's nothing magic about the vast, vast majority of vitamins and minerals that make them only available in meat. Vitamin B12 is more difficult to get for vegetarians and vegans, but even that is not impossible to find.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday February 02 2018, @09:59PM (1 child)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday February 02 2018, @09:59PM (#632191) Journal

      You can get B12 from "nooch" (nutritional yeast) I heard. I dated a vegetarian for a while once and while she wasn't vegan, she was close enough that her doctor was giving her the kind of health advice usually reserved for vegans. Mushrooms supposedly also have it, but IIRC you'd need to eat like an entire kg of them a day.

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      • (Score: 4, Insightful) by insanumingenium on Friday February 02 2018, @10:24PM

        by insanumingenium (4824) on Friday February 02 2018, @10:24PM (#632205) Journal

        No need for any exotic yeast sources. Beer is notably high in B12, though I am sure that for best health you really should brew your own. That is my story and I am sticking to it, I brew as a nutritional supplement.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday February 02 2018, @09:03PM (4 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Friday February 02 2018, @09:03PM (#632156)

    Eating meat is very healthy, and ensures that you do not suffer from chronic vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

    I've hardly ever eaten meat over the course of my life, and have never been diagnosed with vitamin or mineral deficiencies. Yes, including iron and other things most commonly gotten from meat. It's really easy if you enjoy eating beans and legumes.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @09:08PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @09:08PM (#632161)

      Those can mess you up.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTSvLKY7HEk [youtube.com]

    • (Score: 2) by dry on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:12AM (2 children)

      by dry (223) on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:12AM (#632350) Journal

      A lot of people don't seem to realize that cows do just fine on a grass diet. Used to argue with a girl who believed she had to drink milk for calcium and eat meat for iron when lots of greens will supply them.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:54AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:54AM (#632364)

        Jesus, I hope you aren't serious.

        Cows have extra stomachs and spit up their partially digested food (cud) to give it another chewing before the second and final pass though their digestive system. It takes a specialized digestive system to thrive on such a poor food.

        I must have been trolled...

        • (Score: 3, Informative) by dry on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:24AM

          by dry (223) on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:24AM (#632378) Journal

          The point is that plants can supply calcium and iron amongst other things. Obviously people need to eat different plants then a cow, I just took it for granted people would understand the point that green stuff can supply most dietary requirements.