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: 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.