Antibiotic Resistant Deaths
“We can’t waste life-saving medicines to produce cheap beef. The cost to our health is too high, and Wendy’s can use its buying power to help move the beef industry away from overusing antibiotics,” said Matthew Wellington, U.S. PIRG
Up to 162,000 Americans die from antibiotic-resistant infections yearly, making them the third-leading cause of death in the United States. Health experts, warn that the routine use of antibiotics in animals that aren’t sick fuels drug-resistant bacteria.
"The bulk of antibiotics sold in this country are for use in food production, and this usage is a major factor in the development of antibiotic resistance in the US," said Dr. Ben Katz
the Antibiotics Off the Menu Coalition have been urging food companies to phase routine antibiotic use out of their meat supply chains. Their efforts convince McDonald’s, Subway, KFC and more companies to address critical public health threat.
Nearly two-thirds of the medically important antibiotics sold in the United States are for use on food animals.
Meat producers often use the drugs to compensate for unsanitary, overcrowded, and shitty living conditions.
To keep antibiotics working, we need to limit their use to urgent situations … otherwise all might die. Respect the power of bacteria and virus… they’ve been around a lot longer than our flash in the pan species.
U.S. PIRG Education Fund is calling on Wendy’s to stop serving beef raised with the routine use of antibiotics. The U.S. PIRG Education Fund and its partner groups are calling on the third-largest burger chain in the United States to follow the lead of its rival, McDonald’s, which recently announced a detailed antibiotics policy for its beef supply chain. The group held events in front of Wendy’s franchises in New York City and Chicago to announce the campaign.
I think that this situation is observed not only in the United States, but throughout the world. Once the creation of "penicillin" was for humanity the highest good, who gave the chance to live for millions of people. But today, antibiotics are becoming a real curse of modern society. Very sad.
Antibiotic abuse is what I call it and it is abhorrent that it is permitted to occur, but so many people want cheap meat. Developing safe new ones is very expensive and time consuming. I hope Mcdonalds antibiotics policy is what they claim it to be, and their engagement with the AMR challenge is for real. https://www.dairyherd.com/article/mcdonalds-announces-antibiotic-policy-beef
I do not think its necessary to become a vegetarian, but if people could reduce their meat and animal other animal products consumption by 50% it would make a big difference. I have reduced mine well over that. It is much easier to do these days than 30 years ago, so many great meat subs available. Kids these days have no idea how gross that shit was in the 70s and 80s. Yuck
exactly, I see people with shopping carts full of meat, disgusting, 3x a day eating that, stupid, wasteful, and causes caner.
great job, yes, even a simple change of diet can result in an 80% reduction, peace … for better health of entire system
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