Re:The Age of the Superbug Is Here
by zdkl on Thursday September 22, 2016 @11:22AM
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I spy with my little eye someone who'd die early, in a world without antibiotics.
Some contaminations can't be washed or cooked away (Staphylococcus aureus, some Clostridiums...). And there are a lot of ways to mess up and contaminate an otherwise perfectly fine sample.
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Re:The Age of the Superbug Is Here
by snowwrestler on Thursday September 22, 2016 @11:57AM
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You continue to post as though the only reason antibiotics are given to animals is to keep human customers safe. It's not.
> I spy with my little eye someone who'd die early, in a world without antibiotics.
This is a joke, right? People ate meat safely for thousands of years before antibiotics were invented.
If the animal is sick enough to make you sick when you eat it, it would have died long before it reached the slaughterhouse. What you'd see without agricultural prophylactic antibiotics, at worst, would be occasional mass die-offs and spikes in meat prices. So instead of chicken always being $5/lb, it would be $5/lb most of the time and $50/lb when the die-offs happen.