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It's been this way for decades. IMO it's the main source of antibiotic resistant bacteria. You have billions of chickens being raised every year, each a Petri
by knuthsat 5y ago
It's been this way for decades. IMO it's the main source of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
You have billions of chickens being raised every year, each a Petri dish ready for evolution of resistance.
You have at least 10 billion fresh "Petri dishes" every year. That obliterates human antibiotic use.
When chicken is given an antibiotic, how exactly is that distributed over the body, especially for a sedentary overweight chicken that can hardly walk?
There's no way you can tell that a high dosage will result in no bacteria alive when there can be a pocket of sick flesh where antibiotic might not reach its full potential.
Similarly, the massive rise in UTI infections in women over the years is a side effect of this problem. I do not believe UTI infections in women were that debilitating in the past. Today you can't even get rid of them with antibiotics and a lot of women develop a decade long recurrent UTI infection problem.
Human antibiotics use is not an issue.