{"id":40018,"date":"2013-12-12T06:15:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T13:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/more-animal-antibiotic-guidelines-are-not-what-we-need.html"},"modified":"2013-12-12T06:15:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T13:15:05","slug":"more-animal-antibiotic-guidelines-are-not-what-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/more-animal-antibiotic-guidelines-are-not-what-we-need.html","title":{"rendered":"More animal antibiotic "guidelines" are not what we need"},"content":{"rendered":"
There's pretty much scientific unanimity that routine use of antibiotics on livestock — largely to promote larger body weight and overcome the health problems of cramming so many animals into too small a space — has had an increasingly dangerous degradation\u00a0on those antibiotics' effectiveness when used in humans. \u00a0Bugs are developing immunity because of the overuse, and thus are immune when they infect people instead of animals. \u00a0The life cycle of antibiotic effectiveness has diminished significantly over the last century, and we're seeing increasing numbers of infection\u00a0that are untreatable in humans — and therefore deadly.<\/p>\n

The problem is, Big Agriculture has been unwilling to do anything about it, since reduced use would mean smaller product or increased costs on their part. \u00a0The FDA has had voluntary guidelines in effect for years on livestock companies, and they've had little effect.<\/p>\n

So why shift over to voluntary guidelines for pharmaceutical companies? \u00a0While some may be willing to take the plunge and require their products have a prescription from a vet (assuming even that<\/i> is a significant barrier), there's no requirement for any of the others to do the same and cut themselves off from a lucrative market. \u00a0Indeed, there's every financial reason not to. I expect this to have a minimal effect on the problem, and thus on the human death toll resulting from it.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Al Jazeera America<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In a bid to stem a surge in human resistance to certain antibiotics, the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced new guidelines to try to phase out the overuse of antibiotics as a growth enhancer in livestock. http:\/\/alj.am\/19D9Jyp<\/a>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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FDA announces new guidelines to limit antibiotics in livestock | Al Jazeera America<\/a>
\n In a bid to curb human antibiotic resistance, FDA asks drug companies to change labeling, but compliance is voluntary\n <\/p>\n

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There's pretty much scientific unanimity that routine use of antibiotics on livestock — largely to promote larger body weight and overcome the health problems of cramming so many animals into too small a space — has had an increasingly dangerous degradation\u00a0on those antibiotics' effectiveness when used in humans. \u00a0Bugs are developing immunity because of the … Continue reading “More animal antibiotic "guidelines" are not what we need”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45961,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/15\/resistance-is-futile-livestock-antibiotics-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":40018,"position":0},"title":"Resistance is Futile (Livestock Antibiotics Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Oct-14 5:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't think you'd find many scientists not being paid by the livestock industry who would question that extensive use of antibiotics on cattle -- for both health and to make them grow bigger and faster -- has had an effect on the rise of antibiotic-resistant diseases that are, quite\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49192,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/08\/possibly-the-most-important-science-news-today.html","url_meta":{"origin":40018,"position":1},"title":"Possibly the most important science news today","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Jan-15 12:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Drug-resistant bacteria is a growing and potentially disastrous threat to humanity. 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