Antibiotics in Meat Could Be Damaging Our Guts

Re:Antibiotics in Meat Could Be Damaging Our Guts by will_brown on Saturday May 26, 2018 @01:17PM (#17163112)

>This isn't what the antibiotics are for. They increase growth. We don't know why.

I think it’s more along the lines of this:

1. Cows evolved to eat low starch and high fiber grass;

2. We feed them corn and grain based diets that speed up growth but result in certain illnesses (rumen a layer of slime which traps gas they normally release and liver failure both which can lead to death);

3. Antibiotics are mixed in with corn and grain based feeds which help with both those issues (gas/bloating and liver failure).

I have never seen a study showing antibiotics lead to accelerated growth where a cow doesn’t also eat a corn/grain based feed.

More detail explanation here (not a study): https://www.google.com/amp/s/paleopersonaltrainer.wordpress....

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Re:Antibiotics in Meat Could Be Damaging Our Guts by curuinor on Saturday May 26, 2018 @01:58PM (#17163371)

Review says that grass feeding makes the antibiotic growth effect different, but it's not a monotonic difference: makes some antibiotics better, some worse.

https://www.livestockscience.com/article/S1871-1413(07)00572...

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Re:Antibiotics in Meat Could Be Damaging Our Guts by bad_user on Saturday May 26, 2018 @05:53PM (#17164456)

Both statements are true.

Chicken are fed antibiotics because it stimulates some growth hormone.

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