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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: 2) by NewNic on Friday February 02 2018, @09:10PM (1 child)
Is there a sacrifice, though?
The evidence that antibiotics promote growth in animals is slim, while the costs of the antibiotics are significant. This may simply be a matter of education.
This study [nih.gov] is evidence that the net benefit of using antibiotics is negative:
"Positive production changes were associated with GPA use, but were insufficient to offset the cost of the antibiotics. The net effect of using GPAs was a lost value of $0.0093 per chicken (about 0.45% of total cost). "
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(Score: 2) by dry on Saturday February 03 2018, @03:48AM
People believe what they do and no amount of research seems to change peoples believes, at least if they have emotional investment in those believes.