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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @06:44PM (14 children)
They just don't give a fuck about disease and its causes. It's... frustrating.
(Score: 5, Touché) by bob_super on Friday February 02 2018, @06:51PM (2 children)
I'm glad the rest of the world is setting the example by never prioritizing profits above risks.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 03 2018, @12:02AM (1 child)
Where is this "the rest of the world" to which you refer? I might want to move there!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Saturday February 03 2018, @12:21AM
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Bhutan [wikipedia.org], maybe ?
(Score: 4, Funny) by DECbot on Friday February 02 2018, @06:57PM (8 children)
Get your tin foil hats ready!
Asia is not ignoring germ theory, it is part of their scheme. China's 100 year plan is to ruin the West economically. And their 1000 year plan is to breed a population with a superior immune system to destroy us immunologically. India has caught on to China's plot and is trying to catch up by breeding superior pathogens.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @07:38PM (1 child)
I think that is closer to sheet-metal hat.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @08:10PM
It could use some weather war, TBH.
Egh, I guess nobody's going to come up with a good conspiracy involving the weather war unless I do it myself.
The Chinese are using weather warfare to cause droughts in South Africa (note: this won't work perfectly because of BRICS) and the United States. (Insert hyperlinks to crazy sites here, here, and here. Don't use timecube for this one. That's too crazy.) Hmm, need to show bias against Kal-El and his Murican Way. (Maybe Kara Zor-El can help out, but her feminism has never struck me as evil.) Anyway, the New World Order is doing... things... to destroy our freedumbs! And breed their own race of swarthy, dark-skinned super men! Don't believe it? Habeeb it!
*sigh* I'll try again later. I'm just not feeling inspired right now. Writer's block, etc.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by VLM on Friday February 02 2018, @08:10PM (3 children)
I find that conspiracy theory to be interesting.
Most "man made HIV in Africa" theories blame the CIA for no apparent reason other than the CIA is traditionally blamed for anything bad. China as the bad guy looking for resources and land sounds much better for that theory than "the CIA is the root of all evil"
We know from European colony era that Africa, as in Africa the plot of land, can be the breadbasket of the world and also recent history shows that Africa, as in Africa the people living there, can't feed themselves much less the pie in the sky predictions of billions of projected population growth... maybe the conspiracy theory is (Chinese genetically engineered) HIV kills off the legacy Africans and the meme of three billion people in Africa within the century means 2.99B Chinese and a handful of indian style reservations of legacy natives.
The street shitting thing in India is weird. In the USA inequality is expressed in income tax W-2 forms but we all have TVs and toilets and probably many other things that begin with the word T. In India you have rather high levels of civil engineering right down the street from the designated shitting streets. There's always inequality, its just in the USA its expressed in income and in India its expressed as street shitting. I'm just saying the pathogen thing is a mere side effect, mostly, at least in India.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday February 02 2018, @09:55PM (1 child)
Why don't you just say 1) you're a conspiracy nut, but the conspiracy isn't nutty enough/too anti-American and 2) you hope all the dark-skinned people die because somehow "they deserve it?"
You waste a lot of words and electrons just to anti-virtue signal to everyone what a complete walking trash fire of a human being you are.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:56PM
He also seems to be missing the whole hepatitus issue out on the west coast, when plastic bags were banned and public bathrooms were not accessible to homeless people, causing them to shit in the streets. many of them were drug users and have liver infections and ended up spreading illness due to the storm sewer water treatment not taking widespread distribution of disease like that; the sewage system was more for that.
And so the streets actually could make people ill because of rich people not wanting homeless people around, the feel good about the environment crowd banning bags, knowing what is discussed here--that you can't expect companies to williingly stop using them or freon or antibiotics or pollute into the sky and water if it saves them money. So bags were banned, and the homeless people having no where to go-- literally.
Probably when the antibiotics stop working, it won't be just the brown people that gets sick. unless white superiority people have a means to prevent illness simply by being superior.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @11:30PM
Blame the CIA for no apparent reason? Hmm, ok Mr. Headendasand.
Africans can't feed themselves? More deranged nonsense.
Street shitting? Go wander around a majoYou are literally pointing to the bread and circuses r city, go near where the homeless hang out. The US has millions of people with no toilets or TVs. That little quality of life meme is getting beyond stupid, there are areas of the US with poverty worse than the standard 3rd world type of poverty.
Pathogen is a mere side effect? Yeah no shit, that is the whole point!!! Nothing "mere" about it when you get bugs resistant to modern medicine. The US has the same problem, though there is an increasing awareness of the issue.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @08:35PM
We here in Murcia prefer the dignified method of not giving kids immunization shots.
Doctors = evil.
Christ > measles!!!!!
Ain’t no backwater here. Love to trump. Yeehaw!!!
(Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Friday February 02 2018, @10:20PM
Didn't Kurt Vonnegut come up with this already, I think in Slapstick?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Friday February 02 2018, @09:01PM
They just don't give a fuck about disease and its causes. It's... frustrating.
Seriously, how is this any different from the conventional animal farming methods used in the US, except for the exact antibiotic being used?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:04AM
That's why I saw so many pictures of Asians wearing masks to protect from bird flu. Americans never wear masks. I guess they don't give a s*** about spreading germs.