Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again

Re:Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again by ornornor on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @09:48AM (#26807003)

Not sure why the downvotes, this is a known fact. Cows are meant to eat grass for instance but because we feed them corn and soy instead (slightly cheaper), they get diseases they otherwise wouldn’t get. So their foodstuff is also laced with antibiotics, which people eating the meat and milk in turn absorb.

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Re:Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again by MengerSponge on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @09:59AM (#26807159)

Even if you feed livestock a totally optimal diet (e.g. grass for cows) they'll convert it more efficiently (read: they'll grow bigger from the same amount of feed) if you supplement it with low dose antibiotics.

It's shockingly dangerous and should be illegal.

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Re:Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again by nemetroid on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @01:29PM (#26810284)

According to Wikipedia, it is illegal in the EU since 2006, and in Sweden since 1986 (and partly so in the US since 2017).

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Re:Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again by ben_w on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @11:14AM (#26808255)

I thought the main issue was that antibiotics make the livestock put on weight faster, and the dose to do that isn’t quite enough to kill of the bacteria? So the bacteria get a chance to evolve immunity?

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Re:Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again by slt2021 on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @10:19AM (#26807405)

its even worse with pig farming in populated developing countries (china), amount of antibiotics fed to pigs is staggering

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