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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: 4, Insightful) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday February 02 2018, @08:35PM
Oh, wait. I blamed Wikipedia in error thanks to your selective quotation where you did not quote (or perhaps read) the very next sentence. It remains one of the last-resort antibiotics for multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Acinetobacter.[1] NDM-1 metallo-β-lactamase multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae have also shown susceptibility to colistin.
That stuff that's mentioned.... stuff that usually isn't so bad. But if it hits an immunocompromised person each can be very bad news with sepsis risk. And two of them apparently have reported resistances to Carbapenem class antibiotics (another last-resort antibi series).
So, sorry, Wikipedia for doubting you! (But it still shouldn't be used for primary cited research as OP was trying to do... Even though I'll do that myself sometimes. We all make mistakes....)
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