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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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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:20AM (1 child)
So how long ago did you stop eating eggs and cheese?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 03 2018, @04:16AM
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.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...