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Written by Caroline V. Ritter
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Sunday, 01 May 2005 23:15 |
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It's been a rough few days, but rather than dwell on the depressing aspects of depression, I'd rather write about antibiotic resistance. Perhaps that seems strange, but often getting outside of myself helps my mood, as well.
I was talking with a dear friend who has a severe infection that started in her foot. The antibiotics weren't working as well as the doctor expected. We ended up talking about antibiotic resistance and I got on my soap-box about how rotten I thought it was that meat producers give antibiotics just to fatten up the animals faster, not just to combat disease. It is an economic issue that the worshippers of a faster fatted golden calf put the almighty dollar before public health.
The animals fed antibiotics of course develop strains of resistant microbes that they can pass on to humans. I remember reading that an important health organization's (perhaps it was the World Health Organization) number one world concern is antibiotic resistance. It makes me want to make sure I drink my miso soup everyday, that's for sure. It's a microbe-jungle out there if you aren't macrobiotic...
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