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

posted by takyon on Friday February 02 2018, @06:28PM   Printer-friendly
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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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @08:45PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @08:45PM (#632152)

    I've read that vegetarians do not suffer from vitamin and mineral deficiencies more often than those who eat meat. They're more likely to suffer from particular deficiencies, but not significantly more likely to suffer from deficiencies in general. There's nothing magic about the vast, vast majority of vitamins and minerals that make them only available in meat. Vitamin B12 is more difficult to get for vegetarians and vegans, but even that is not impossible to find.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday February 02 2018, @09:59PM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday February 02 2018, @09:59PM (#632191) Journal

    You can get B12 from "nooch" (nutritional yeast) I heard. I dated a vegetarian for a while once and while she wasn't vegan, she was close enough that her doctor was giving her the kind of health advice usually reserved for vegans. Mushrooms supposedly also have it, but IIRC you'd need to eat like an entire kg of them a day.

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    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by insanumingenium on Friday February 02 2018, @10:24PM

      by insanumingenium (4824) on Friday February 02 2018, @10:24PM (#632205) Journal

      No need for any exotic yeast sources. Beer is notably high in B12, though I am sure that for best health you really should brew your own. That is my story and I am sticking to it, I brew as a nutritional supplement.