Good evening ladies and gentlemen, I am honored with the presence of you all, and thank you everyone for joining us. I am Jacqueline Sienna, a temporary researcher at Cornell University. My focus is on how drug use in animal growth increases the industrialization of meat, and how the industrialization of meat, by causing more diseases among animals, increases the use of antibiotics to treat those sick animals. These two, subsequently, promotes the growth of bacteria that is able to resist the effects of a single antibiotic or even many antibiotics. Therefore, today, I am going to emphasize how the overuse of antibiotics in livestock promotes the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Whenever an individual takes antibiotics, sensitive bacteria are …show more content…
Therefore, I will suggest some solutions that can reduce the risk of this interchangeable process, the interaction between drugs and the industrialization of meat.
First of all, we can basically get some animals off the antibiotics. Farmers are not required to report the way they use antibiotics. We do not know how the farmers use the drugs; “which ones, on what type of animal, and in what quantities” (Taveise, 2012, 1). This means we do not know how many percentages of antibiotics are used in growth promotion, in prophylactically use or just for treatment. If the target of drug use could be tracked, then the unnecessary amounts could be restricted.
Meat is essential for many of us; it is the irrevocable part of our diet. Thus, it would be nonsense and inappropriate to suggest that we should not consume any meat, instead, consumers can prefer organically raised meat rather than preferring conventionally raised meat, considering the fact that organically raised meat is less colonized with MRSA compared to conventionally raised
Whenever an individual takes antibiotics, sensitive bacteria are …show more content…
Therefore, I will suggest some solutions that can reduce the risk of this interchangeable process, the interaction between drugs and the industrialization of meat.
First of all, we can basically get some animals off the antibiotics. Farmers are not required to report the way they use antibiotics. We do not know how the farmers use the drugs; “which ones, on what type of animal, and in what quantities” (Taveise, 2012, 1). This means we do not know how many percentages of antibiotics are used in growth promotion, in prophylactically use or just for treatment. If the target of drug use could be tracked, then the unnecessary amounts could be restricted.
Meat is essential for many of us; it is the irrevocable part of our diet. Thus, it would be nonsense and inappropriate to suggest that we should not consume any meat, instead, consumers can prefer organically raised meat rather than preferring conventionally raised meat, considering the fact that organically raised meat is less colonized with MRSA compared to conventionally raised