creating suberbugs, just another exciting by-product of our*enlightened* moderne industrial,agricultural,petrochemical,pharmaceutical, biogenetic,human exploitive complex that still leaves the world hungry. crowd some more animals together, give 'em some more anti-biotics and lets make another dollar off their sick hide.
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original-cornucopiaDisease Resistance to Antibiotics Among Humans and Animals Continues to RiseKANSAS CITY (Dow Jones)–Disease resistance to antibiotics among humans and animals continues to rise, despite declines in their use as a feed-ration additive to prevent illness and to promote growth in livestock and poultry, according to scientists and livestock industry members.
In addition, worldwide use of antibiotics to treat sick animals has increased in the last seven years, but total use remains below mid-1990s peaks, according to statistics for Europe by the Danish government.
The U.S. situation - declines in feed use to promote general herd or flock health and as a growth promoter - corresponds to an increase in therapeutic use to treat a higher numbers of sick animals or birds.
It “is precisely what is taking place in Europe,” said Ron Phillips, vice president of legislative and public affairs for the Animal Health Institute, citing figures from the Danish government’s program for surveillance of European antimicrobial resistance, called DANMAP.
Michael Hansen, senior scientist at the Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports, pointed to the same report and said total antibiotic use in the European Union peaked in 1994. By the end of 1999, antibiotic use as a growth promoter was banned in the E.U., although the industry had begun to take
it out of the rations before then, he said.
The DANMAP report for 2005, the most recent statistics available, says, “antimicrobial consumption in food animals is still low compared to the total consumption before the cessation of growth promoter use.” A chart in the report also says antimicrobial use in animals leveled in 2004 and 2005.
At the same time, the use of antibiotics in humans has held about steady from 1997 through 2005, the DANMAP report showed.
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