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80% of antibiotic use in the USA goes to farm animals, not people. We could therefore significantly reduce the amount of antibiotics in our environment without
by jbigelow76 11y ago
80% of antibiotic use in the USA goes to farm animals, not people. We could therefore significantly reduce the amount of antibiotics in our environment without affecting human lives.
Good luck with that. This would mean regulation, and that would mean going up against corporate farms and their lobbyists as well as the Senators and Congressmen they have in their pockets. America's legislative branch is actively hostile to science and anything that could impact the bottom line of their campaign donors.
- sanderjd 11y agoYeah, but now the grandparent commenter's nightmare "toddlers dying" scenario, which seems impossible to overcome, has been reduced to a "powerful lobbyists" scenario, which is daunting, but possible, to fight.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoThe problem is that there won't be any real fight before toddlers start dying, because until then you can always leave the issue for later.
- beachstartup 11y agothe unfortunate truth is that the toddlers have to start dying for the lobbyists to start losing.
- m3rc 11y agoWell we've got even worse problems if we can't combat the lobbyist plague in the US
- TeMPOraL 11y agoWe have even worse problems if we can't stop the climate change, or at least the acidification of oceans. Unfortunately, economic incentives don't respond well to things that are still in the future.