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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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India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @06:40PM (6 children)
The article didn't mention they were giving chickens antibiotics for the purpose of eating them.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Friday February 02 2018, @06:48PM (3 children)
Sorry for the rhetorical question, but for what other reason would you desire to quickly fatten up a multitude of chickens?
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(Score: 5, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Friday February 02 2018, @07:58PM
To finally solve those math problems that start with "First, assume a spherical chicken."
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @08:00PM (1 child)
Well, I can think of at least one other, but the article doesn't mention vaseline.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @10:26PM
It's India.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday February 02 2018, @06:48PM
> The article didn't mention they were giving chickens antibiotics for the purpose of eating them.
TFS:
If you only tried to make an obesity simulator, would you use the word "poultry" ?
(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.