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India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics

posted by takyon on Friday February 02 2018, @06:28PM   
from the chicken-not-so-little dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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• Re:Abstaining from meat won't help Re:Abstaining from meat won't help (Score: 3, Funny) by DECbot on Friday February 02 2018, @06:48PM (3 children)

  by DECbot (832) on Friday February 02 2018, @06:48PM (#632098) Journal

  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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• Re:Abstaining from meat won't help (Score: 5, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Friday February 02 2018, @07:58PM

  by nitehawk214 (1304) on Friday February 02 2018, @07:58PM (#632131)

  To finally solve those math problems that start with "First, assume a spherical chicken."

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• Re:Abstaining from meat won't help Re:Abstaining from meat won't help (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @08:00PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @08:00PM (#632133)

  Well, I can think of at least one other, but the article doesn't mention vaseline.

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  • Re:Abstaining from meat won't help (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @10:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @10:26PM (#632209)

    It's India.

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