Raised Without Antibiotics
Posted on August 15, 2007 Comments (8)
Tyson is going to start selling chicken Raised Without Antibiotics. The overuse of antibiotics is a huge problem and the overuse in the raising of livestock is a huge problem.
Tyson started selling 100% All Naturalâ„¢, Raised Without Antibiotics chicken this week. The product is being distributed nationwide in newly-designed packaging highlighting that the chicken is raised without antibiotics and contains no artificial ingredients.
While it is nice they will start selling a portion of chicken raised without using antibiotics and endangering the health of the community by helping evolve super-resistant bugs this is really a pretty small step I would guess. The risk is not even mainly to the person eating the food pumped full of antibiotics it is to everyone when drug resistant bacteria are evolved through the overuse of antibiotics. Also, 100% All Natural is trademarked? Give me a break.
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The European Union, on the recommendation of the World Health Organization, has banned the use of antibiotics to promote the growth of livestock animals when those drugs are also used to treat people. The Center for Disease Control has agreed with this position, but the U.S. government has failed to reduce the threat that ineffective antibiotics pose to human health. (Lieberman, et.al., 1999)
To reduce serious health threats, the Food and Drug Administration should ban the use of antibiotics to promote livestock growth when those antibiotics are used to treat humans.
Categories: Antibiotics, Health Care, Life Science, Students
Tags: Antibiotics, food, government, Health Care, regulation
8 Responses to “Raised Without Antibiotics”
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August 22nd, 2007 @ 1:58 pm
What about hormones included in poultry and red meats? We do have an increase in certain cancers.
January 21st, 2008 @ 10:08 am
This is a serious problem. And it is sad to see yet another example of well know scientific facts being ignored and by so doing threatening the healthy lives of others…
January 29th, 2008 @ 9:23 am
“Consumer advocates have been campaigning for years to curb the use of antibiotics in agriculture, citing studies that show that 70 percent of all U.S. antibiotics are administered in low doses – not to treat disease, but to promote the growth of pigs, sheep, chicken and cattle…”
February 25th, 2008 @ 8:49 am
Microbiologists of the 1950’s did not appreciate the stunning extent to which bacteria swap genes…
February 24th, 2010 @ 11:04 pm
[…] goes unfinished, or when antibiotics used on farms enter food and water at low levels. … Of the 35 million pounds of antibiotics consumed annually in the United States, 80 percent goes to f…. Much of it is used to treat diseases spread by industrial husbandry practices, or simply to […]
August 9th, 2011 @ 8:32 pm
Antibiotics have been a miraculous tool to keep up healthy. Like vaccines this full value of this tool is wasted if it is used improperly. Vaccines value is wasted when they are not used enough. Antibiotics lose potency when they are overused…
March 28th, 2012 @ 9:03 am
[…] catastrophic societal failures. While tuberculosis failures may be larger in poorer countries, rich countries are failing probably much more critically in the misuse of anti-biotics (I would guess, without having much evidence at my fingertips to back up my opinion. I believe the […]
December 31st, 2013 @ 2:05 am
This flood of antibiotics released into the environment – sprayed on fruit trees and fed to the likes of livestock, poultry and salmon, among other uses – has led bacteria to evolve…