Common Antibiotics > cheap meat > MRSA
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Originally Posted by
Rick
Pharmaceutical companies manufacture newer antibiotics in response to mutations.
There is growing evidence that even the widespread use of common, low grade antibiotics can cause bacteria to become resistant (by mutation) to the rarely use newer "super antibiotics". Also most antibiotics used in the USA are only used to make your grocery store meat cheaper, to grow the livestock faster so they consume less feed and water, and time to market is shorter.
I am all in favor of low income people having lower cost protein, this should lower diabetes and obesity due to highly refined carbohydrate diets etc. but some common sense is necessary. A diet high in unrefined legumes helps and will not necessarily cause you to lose your job due to gassy outbursts.
This "documentary" is one sided but still worth watching:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...h-antibiotics/
Jump to Minute 25:30
World Peace or Eat Healthy?
Not wise to put to much weight in these studies because numbers can be twisted and interpolated to show false "trends" and inaccurate cost estimates but there is probably some fire behind the smoke.
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/mgi
Annual global impact of obesity is estimated by McKinsey Global Institute to be roughly $2 Trillion in US Dollars.
More than cost of all current armed conflict in the world, so perhaps those bumper stickers of "Pray for World Peace" should be replaced with "Eat health, exercise and don't abuse antibiotics". Oh heck, I'm being ridiculous. This was a cost estimate not a death toll, I hate to see the estimate on premature deaths.
simple soap and water or one antibiotic if injury is bad
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Originally Posted by
ace_maveric
I guess what I was really trying to say is that there is little point on doubling and tripling on the antibiotics that do the same function.
Very good point. In a climate that is not very humid and/or tropical a simple non-anitbiotic soap and clean water is often all that is needed to clean pathogens out of a minor scrape or cut. As a young kid when I traveled from the Amazon to the deserts of California one time I was amazed at how fast minor injuries healed on their own, it seemed like magic to me. Best of all the village Shaman did not insist on blowing smoke over it. (Joking a bit there, that guy had killed 3 - 4 men and freaked me out when he got going into his spirit world stuff, I never let him blow smoke on me. I knew of 3 men he had killed because he wanted their wives for himself. But I was told that he later killed a fourth and the brothers of those he killed ambushed and shot him to death. These indigenous people did not exactly live in perfect harmony with each other, but they laughed a lot around the campfire at night and were fun to hunt and fish with.)
Another minor point: the chickens in your byline "Their motive" I make many grammatical errors as well that one was just bugging me. I suspect the chickens spotted some tasty bugs on the other side, in my grammar.
