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Tuesday, March 24th, 2015

Antibiotics in meat on the rise worldwide, especially bacon

Author:     Thor Benson
Source:     United Press International
Publication Date:     March 22, 2015 at 6:42 PM
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Stephan:   I gave up bacon years ago, even though I liked the taste, because of the research I was reading about fats, and nitrates. But the situation, as this report describes, is actually much worse. The study discussed in this report was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,  from whom it can be downloaded. If you eat bacon, you might reconsider that decision.

“The invention of antibiotics was a major public health revolution of the 20th century,” said senior author Ramanan Laxminarayan, a senior research scholar in the Princeton Environmental Institute and Director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy. “Their effectiveness — and the lives of millions of people around the world — are now in danger due to the increasing global problem of antibiotic resistance, which is being driven by antibiotic consumption.”

The study was done by researchers at the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, Princeton University, the International Livestock Research Institute and the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

The researchers found antibiotic use in livestock will likely rise 67 percent by 2030 if livestock conditions don’t improve. About 80 percent of antibiotics sold in the United States go to livestock. Antibiotic resistance not only applies to the animals, but it can affect […]

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