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> The second is about removing subsidies to farmers that use any kind of pesticide, or regularly use antibiotics on their livestock, etc. Anecdotally through m
by Ovah 5y ago
> The second is about removing subsidies to farmers that use any kind of pesticide, or regularly use antibiotics on their livestock, etc.
Anecdotally through medical school I've heard that there is evidence that antibiotic overuse in livestock, contrary to intuition, has no correlation with antibiotic resistance of human pathogens.
- mellavora 5y agoodd, because the literature is full of studies showing rather high correlations. Here is a nice review article published in the Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(17)30141-9/fulltext?elsca1=tlxpr https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5... The WHO is pretty convinced of the connection https://www.who.int/news/item/07-11-2017-stop-using-antibiotics-in-healthy-animals-to-prevent-the-spread-of-antibiotic-resistance https://www.who.int/news/item/07-11-2017-stop-using-antibiot...