Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry
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Re: Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry
#2Humans are squandering antibiotics for the most inane uses, rapidly growing superbugs and resistance along the way. This will become a major public health crisis if nothing is done about it sooner than later.
Re: Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry
#3Humans are squandering antibiotics for the most inane uses, rapidly growing superbugs and resistance along the way. This will become a major public health crisis if nothing is done about it sooner than later.
> rapidly growing superbugs
We can outsmart them. We have biochemistry and flocks of 30 year old PhD students. They have a random number generator.
Re: Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry
#4Humans are squandering antibiotics for the most inane uses, rapidly growing superbugs and resistance along the way. This will become a major public health crisis if nothing is done about it sooner than later.
> rapidly growing superbugs We can outsmart them. We have biochemistry and flocks of 30 year old PhD students. They have a random number generator.
But they have huge, I mean really, really huge numbers. And their generation time is measured in hours.
Re: Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry
#5Humans are squandering antibiotics for the most inane uses, rapidly growing superbugs and resistance along the way. This will become a major public health crisis if nothing is done about it sooner than later.
> rapidly growing superbugs We can outsmart them. We have biochemistry and flocks of 30 year old PhD students. They have a random number generator.
Not "a" random number generator, but rather trillions of random number generators running in parallel.
Re: Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry
#6Do you feel helpless to stop the problem of antibiotics use in the meat industry?
You’re not! Here’s a simple easy trick you can use to reduce its impact on the world: eat less meat.
You don’t need meat in 3 meals a day. Reduce it to 1 meal a day and you’ve already reduced your antibiotics impact by 2/3. Cut down to one meat meal a week and that’s a 96% reduction.
You’re not powerless. Vote with your wallet and your stomach.
Re: Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
> rapidly growing superbugs We can outsmart them. We have biochemistry and flocks of 30 year old PhD students. They have a random number generator.
Not "a" random number generator, but rather trillions of random number generators running in parallel.
The sad thing is that this understates the parallelism of the evolutionary process by ... many orders of magnitude. A single human gut has on the order of 100 trillion bacteria. Also, the gp poster seems to be unaware of plasmids and conjugation process, too. (unless it was sarcasm that went over my head, which it very well may have been)
Re: Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry
#8Humans are squandering antibiotics for the most inane uses, rapidly growing superbugs and resistance along the way. This will become a major public health crisis if nothing is done about it sooner than later.
In an age of increasing nationalistic sentiments and military escalation, it's become a common trope that there's almost no one left to remember the tragedies of WWII. Coincidentally there's certainly nobody alive who remembers the previous pandemic, Spanish Flu.
(I say "previous" - there's an ongoing pandemic of HIV/aids, albeit a more gradual affair, but that's happening to Other People (TM))
Re: Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry
#9Humans are squandering antibiotics for the most inane uses, rapidly growing superbugs and resistance along the way. This will become a major public health crisis if nothing is done about it sooner than later.
> rapidly growing superbugs We can outsmart them. We have biochemistry and flocks of 30 year old PhD students. They have a random number generator.
Unfortunately many from the 30 year old flocks are finding the best ways to optimize ad revenue because that pays many times more than biochemistry.
Re: Chile’s salmon farms may use more antibiotics than any other meat industry
#10Do you feel helpless to stop the problem of antibiotics use in the meat industry? You’re not! Here’s a simple easy trick you can use to reduce its impact on the world: eat less meat. You don’t need meat in 3 meals a day. Reduce it to 1 meal a day and you’ve already reduced your antibiotics impact by 2/3. Cut down to one meat meal a week and that’s a 96% reduction. You’re not powerless. Vote with your wallet and your…
Not to go totally Adam Smith here, but if everyone did this, wouldn’t this just drive the cost of meat down? Making it even cheaper than it already is?
Wouldn’t it make more sense to explicitly seek out “better” meat?
Anyway, I agree, definitely no need to eat meat more than once a day, if not every other day etc.