Human Health and Antibiotic Resistance

We would all like to think that the milk we drink comes from cows raised in beautiful green pastures but the truth is the milk we drink is coming from facilities where cows are being fed antibiotics along with other chemicals. Human health is being compromised by taking antibiotics with out our knowledge. This will lead to antibiotic resistance over time so when we become sick and should be taking antibiotics they will no longer work. Human health is at stake here and building an antibiotic resistance is a growing reality. It’s not like we are taking antibiotics because we choose, it’s in just about everything these days.

 

Antibiotic resistance is a serious issue that has gotten a lot of press in recent years. Basically, bacteria are mutating and outsmarting the antibiotics, making them ineffective. (The same phenomenon is occurring on farms where bugs are mutating to withstand pesticide applications.) We criticize medical doctors for over-prescribing antibiotics, but that is only part of the problem. Not only are antibiotics overused in this country, but they are also over-consumed. People are unknowingly consuming more antibiotics than they are actually taking by choice. Due to the heavy doses of antibiotics used on factory farmed animals, your steaks, hamburgers, chicken, and hotdogs are all laced with antibiotics. Milk alone contains traces of up to 80 different antibiotics.
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Antibiotics in our Food Supply

 

Health officials are concerned if workers who handle animals are getting sick - what about the rest of us? Drug resistant infections have sky-rocketed over the last several decades, killing and estimated 70,000 Americans last year. It's an "emerging health crisis" that scientists say is caused not only by the overuse of antibiotics in humans, but also in livestock.There are a lot of concerns about antibiotics being added to feeds and things of that nature that may be contributing to MRSA as well as other antibiotic resistance. Certainly the more bacteria are exposed to antibiotics in any shape or form, the more tendency there is for resistance.
There are different types of drug-resistant bacteria. Some, like e coli and salmonella, can be passed on to people by consuming undercooked meat and poultry. Now, scientists are worried that Americans may be acquiring drug-resistant MRSA - not from eating, but from handling tainted meat from animals that were given antibiotics.