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The drug abuse that pisses me off the most is the doping of livestock with antibiotics, to (a) make them grow faster, and (b) enable disgusting living condition
by michaelochurch 12y ago
The drug abuse that pisses me off the most is the doping of livestock with antibiotics, to (a) make them grow faster, and (b) enable disgusting living conditions for the animals being housed.
There are a lot of things we do wrong with antibiotics (e.g. doctors who prescribe them for a cold, patients who finish a course prematurely because they "feel fine", and the aforementioned abuse of them in factory farming) and drug-resistant bacteria kill people who had nothing to do with the original abuse.
That should be included in those statistics as well.
- the_watcher 12y agoUnfortunately that is almost impossible to measure with our current tools (at least I have never seen it done convincingly, and I generally agree with you that this is ignored too much. Although I have to qualify that GMO-food is better than no food, while recognizing that in almost all cases, that's not anywhere close to what the choice boils down to). I think it was sama who said that factory farming is one of the things that in 50 years we will look back at in confusion over why anyone accepted it, and I tend to agree.