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Title    India's Farmed Chickens Dosed With World's Strongest Antibiotics
Date    Friday February 02 2018, @06:28PM
Author    takyon
Topic   
from the chicken-not-so-little dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/02/02/0339228

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.

Original Submission

Links
  1. "The Guardian reports" - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/01/indias-farmed-chickens-dosed-with-worlds-strongest-antibiotics-study-finds
  2. "Bureau of Investigative Journalism study" - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2018-01-30/a-game-of-chicken-how-indian-poultry-farming-is-creating-global-superbugs
  3. "colistin" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colistin
  4. "antibiotic resistance" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_resistance
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=24641
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