Regulate Use of Antibiotics
In our society, it is common for us to believe most advertisements if, we are only aware of the side they show us. In cases, like the use of antibiotics in livestock, we are told that it helps the production of meat, but the fact that even a small proportion of antibiotics might put our health at risk is frightening. Farm factories are using antibiotics incorrectly. Their whole purpose is to ensure the health of farm animals. This has been lost exclusively for the purpose of farm animals growth. Not to mention that according to the FDA, factory animals are receiving more than 80% of the antibiotics sold in the United States. Regulations on the use of antibiotics in livestock are necessary because it concerns everyone’s health. It is time for us to get involved by learning both sides of this issue and help push the passage of the …show more content…
Dan Ferber, an award winning writer, describes how antibiotics “... make farm animals grow slightly faster on less feed… But antibiotics spur some bacteria to develop resistance to the drug, and those bugs, or the resistance genes they harbor, can make their way into meat and then the human gut” (3). With this in mind, it is clear that applying antibiotics on non-sick animals highly affects our health on a regular basis. Currently, one cannot consume eggs, or any kind of meat, without running the risk of getting salmonella. The Food and Drug administration estimated that “48 million people experience food-borne illness annually, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 people die as a result” and added that most of these illnesses resulted from bacterial contamination (1). The impact these illnesses are having in our society could stop, it just takes companies to start following regulations such as the WHO’s that demands farm factories to use antibiotics exclusively to cure sick
In our society, it is common for us to believe most advertisements if, we are only aware of the side they show us. In cases, like the use of antibiotics in livestock, we are told that it helps the production of meat, but the fact that even a small proportion of antibiotics might put our health at risk is frightening. Farm factories are using antibiotics incorrectly. Their whole purpose is to ensure the health of farm animals. This has been lost exclusively for the purpose of farm animals growth. Not to mention that according to the FDA, factory animals are receiving more than 80% of the antibiotics sold in the United States. Regulations on the use of antibiotics in livestock are necessary because it concerns everyone’s health. It is time for us to get involved by learning both sides of this issue and help push the passage of the …show more content…
Dan Ferber, an award winning writer, describes how antibiotics “... make farm animals grow slightly faster on less feed… But antibiotics spur some bacteria to develop resistance to the drug, and those bugs, or the resistance genes they harbor, can make their way into meat and then the human gut” (3). With this in mind, it is clear that applying antibiotics on non-sick animals highly affects our health on a regular basis. Currently, one cannot consume eggs, or any kind of meat, without running the risk of getting salmonella. The Food and Drug administration estimated that “48 million people experience food-borne illness annually, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 people die as a result” and added that most of these illnesses resulted from bacterial contamination (1). The impact these illnesses are having in our society could stop, it just takes companies to start following regulations such as the WHO’s that demands farm factories to use antibiotics exclusively to cure sick