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Is it antibiotic resistant, because the cattle are pumped so full of antibiotics?
curious2
2015 Apr 2, 4:15pm
Is it antibiotic resistant, because the cattle are pumped so full of antibiotics?
Yes. Antibiotics can make chickens grow faster and cows give more milk, but overuse promotes resistant bacteria that can then transfer to humans.
BTW, if a human actually needs an antibiotic, e.g. for strep throat, that is prohibited unless he first pays a government licensee for permission, raising the cost 100x and delaying access allowing disease bacteria to spread. Meanwhile, around 80% of antibiotics go to food animals: if a factory farmer wants tons of antibiotics to increase output, promoting resistant bacteria and spraying them into the air via Texas manure, that's legal, because them farmers done paid the politicians fair and square, just like the prescriber lobbies done did. You're not allowed to buy an antibiotic for yourself even if your life depends on it, but CAFO feedlots can poison the air you breathe with resistant bacteria.
Everyone knows that beef from cattle pumped with hormones,steroids & antibiotics will not harm anyone's children & grandchildren.
MisdemeanorRebel
2015 Apr 2, 8:07pm
Food animals account for most of the antibiotic use in the US.
YEP. Technological Solutions often create new problems. Phosphates with Mechanized Agriculture is another.
Speaking of animal antibiotics, regulations and markets, ain't it funny that antibiotics made for horses (in a large intravenous dose because horses are large creatures), is cheaper than antibiotics for household pets (much smaller in size), and far cheaper than for humans.
Product differential, my ass. Most of the horse antibiotics is made in the same plant to the same standard as the same IV antibiotic used on humans, because it generally doesn't make economic sense to have two sets of manufacturing equipment, when you can use one set to mass produce the higher standard.
MisdemeanorRebel
2015 Apr 2, 8:15pm
Case in point:
https://www.vetdepot.com/amoxicillin-500-mg-100-capsules.html
Cheaper than many people's co-pay for a course of two dozen of the same size pill for Bronchitis.
What a racket.
curious2
2015 Apr 2, 10:25pm
Case in point:
https://www.vetdepot.com/amoxicillin-500-mg-100-capsules.htmlCheaper than many people's co-pay for a course of two dozen of the same size pill for Bronchitis.
What a racket.
There's your first lesson on why healthcare is so costly in this country. Most people have health insurance, most pets don't.
Exactly. Stand by for federally mandated PuppyCare, and if you oppose that, then prepare for rabid accusations that your judgment is clouded by your hatred of puppies!
"Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria From Texan Cattle Yards Are Now Airborne... capable of "traveling for long distances"...creating a new pathway by which such bacteria can potentially spread to humans and hinder treatment of life-threatening infections... Antibiotic-resistant bacterial DNA is already known to be transferable to humans if ingested via water or meat."
Food animals account for most of the antibiotic use in the US.
""Every year, more than 100,000 Americans die from bacterial infections acquired in hospitals, and seventy percent of these infections are resistant to drugs commonly used to treat them."