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.
(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.