Medically important antibiotics are wasted on animal agriculture to supplement typical factory farming practices.
Growing muscle meat directly from cells, rather than raising or slaughtering animals, reduces the risk of “due to fecal contamination during slaughter and slaughter” because there are no feces, slaughter, slaughter, or slaughter corpses. Furthermore, growing meat also reduces the threat of antibiotic resistance.
Animals usually absorb antibiotics to compensate for the overcrowded, stressful, and unsanitary conditions on factory farms. Many antibiotics. As you can see here, in my video, at 0:57, the effect of cultivated meat on human health: antibiotic resistance.
For example, in the United States, farm animals are given approximately 2 million pounds of penicillin drugs and 15 million pounds of tetracycline per year. This is insanity.
In my video, at 1:02, antibiotics important for human medicine go directly into the feed and water of animals such as cows, pigs, and chickens, as shown below. And it’s all prescription-free.
97% of the millions of pounds of antibiotics given to animals on farms in the United States have no prescriptions or even orders from the veterinarian, like here and at 1:24. To get a few milligrams of penicillin, you will need a doctor’s prescription. Because these are miraculous, mysterious medicines that cannot be wasted. Meanwhile, farmers can move their trucks back to their feed store.
Currently, half of the retail meat salmonella (chicken, turkey, beef, pork) is resistant to tetracycline, as shown at 1:50 in my video. Currently, about a quarter of the bugs have been resistant to all three or more classes of antibiotics, including “a cephalosporin (which) such as ceftriaxone is a very important drug used to treat severe salmonella infections, especially children.”
The agricultural use of such antibiotics is now considered a “urgent threat to human health.” “The relationship between antibiotic use in animals and antibiotic resistance in humans is clear.”
As shown here, in my video at 2:20, it all starts with poop.
Antibiotic resistance bugs can spread through meat, produce poop-contaminated production, spread through wind, air, or water, or be carried by insects. There are many routes that can allow resistant superbugs to escape. Therefore, even without eating meat, one can be “at risky by the pathogens released from antibiotic-filled livestock of stress, immunodeficiency, contaminant-filled livestock.” This is one reason why the American Public Health Association called for a moratorium on factory farms, partly due to part of all contamination from the Concentrated Animal Feed Operation (CAFO) to surrounding communities.
Every year, more than five animal fertilizers are produced for all men, women and children in the United States. Again, it all starts with poop. However, cultivated meat means no courage, poop, fecal infections or antibiotics needed. It also means that there are no remaining fecal or antibiotic residues in “foods such as milk, eggs, meat” that can potentially cause a variety of side effects, beyond the transfer of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to humans.
And as you can see here, at 3:30 in my video, the situation got worse and not good. Animal agriculture in the United States uses more antibiotics than ever before.
This is not just because more animals are being raised for food. Antibiotic sales in the US outweigh meat production. Yes, meat production is on the rise, but as shown below at 3:46, antibiotic sales for meat production are increasing significantly.
With the combination of Big Ag and Big Pharma (which earns profits by selling all the drugs), it is difficult to imagine anything that changes politically. The only hope may be changes on the production side.
“The unstoppable rise in ultra-resistant strains of bacteria is a serious global problem that brings about 700,000 deaths each year, and the projection for global antibiotic use in farm production is “ominous” and is estimated to exceed 100,000 tons of antibiotics that have been raised or even raised by 2030. Just resort to antibiotics like carbapenems and shave a few cents from a pound of meat.
And it’s not just edible bacteria. Mad cow disease, swine flu and avian flu can kill millions of people. Are you skeptical? I have a book you should read, the author’s “great storytelling ability makes every page of the book interesting and attractive to both professionals and amateurs.” (Thanks, Virology Journal, I call my great book reviews and my book “A must-read.”)
Given the threat of chickens returning to roosts, an editorial in the American Journal of Public Health states, “So changing the way humans treat animals, essentially stop eating them, or fundamentally limiting the amount of food they eat, is off the radar, primarily as an important preventive measure, or can adopt such changes, if they adopt such changes. Trends… But humans have not considered this option.”
But that may be silent. Because we have no courage or lungs and can grow all the chicken we want.
The importance of the American Journal of Public Health Editorial is difficult to emphasize. As devastating as Covid-19, it could be an even bigger threat waiting on the wings: dress rehearsals for chicken wings.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the main candidate for the next pandemic is the avian influenza virus known as H7N9, which is 100 times higher than Covid-19. Instead of 1 in 250 patients die, H7N9 killed 40% of people infected.
When the avian flu virus last jumped directly into humans and caused a pandemic, it caused the most deadly plague in human history, the 1918 pandemic that killed 50 million people. The mortality rate was 2%. What if there was a pandemic that infected billions of people who had death approached the flip of the coin?
The good news is that there is something we can do about it. Just as it eliminates exotic animal trade and live animal markets, it could go a long way to prevent the next coronavirus pandemic. The bottom line is that it’s not worth risking the lives of millions of people because of cheap chicken.
If you missed a previous video, see Human Health Impacts of Cultivated Meat: Food Safety. Next is the impact of cultivated meat on human health: chemical safety.
