A new review commissioned by UK Prime Minister and occasional porcine necrophilia fetishist David Cameron further confirms what the CDC and virtually every worldwide organization devoted to tracking the spread and development of infectious diseases has been telling us for quite a while now: We are effectively creating our own global pandemics through blatant antibiotic overuse in livestock. It is Wonkette’s solemn and crucial duty to point out that global pandemics are very bad.
Contrary to what extremely dumb internet commenters will tell you, eating the meat of animals who have been treated with antibiotics is in no way directly harmful to humans, because that’s not how biology works. Instead, antibiotic overuse is a huge problem for an entirely different reason: natural selection.
The problem is less systemic in Europe, where controls on antibiotic overuse in animals are somewhat more stringent, but as the UK review shows, it’s still an issue even there. As the review notes, bacteria are now developing resistance to even so-called “last resort” antibiotics, the medical nuclear option. The review concludes that to halt the rapid spread of drug resistance, global agricultural antibiotic use would need to be sharply curbed (and in some cases, banned altogether). That would require the U.S. agricultural industry to make serious concessions to its own profit margins — or for Big Government to force them to do so.
This has been true for years ,nothing has been done because of the lobbying power of the companies involved .Your friendly GP has also been over prescribing because of patient pressure .
