Antibiotics are commonly used for a variety of animal health conditions on farms. There are several groups of antibiotics, such as penicillin, macrolide, sulphas, tetracycline and cephalosporin, each registered for specific bacterial problems and conditions in livestock. General conditions include ...
Here’s why this is relevant to our article on why to go vegan. Antibiotics are far more heavily used in farm animals than in humans. Globally,73% of the antibioticswe produce are used in animals raised for food — mainly pre-emptively to prevent infections and avoid financial loss. ...
On the other hand, both carbs and fat are sources of energy. So if you fuel yourself with carbsorfat, the body will burn what it needs to meet its energy demands and store the surplus as (body) fat. The “problem” is that it’s much easier for the body to convert carbs to gluco...
With commercial beekeeping, bees are subject to various processes and procedures, includingartificial inseminationfor the queen and clipping of her wings, so she doesn’t fly off, manual replacement of the hive’s queen bee, treatment with antibiotics, and culling. Culling is done for many reasons...
“It was a strong influence on their health.” Nowadays, Cordonnier’s vines are never more than 15 meters from a tree to facilitate the mycorrhizal network. “When hosted on the roots of a plant, the fungi bring water, minerals, antibiotics, and all the molecules that vines can’t ...
Cancer, H1N1, and Avian Flu are the main health problems due to Factory Farming. On top of that we have 3 million people getting diagnosed with obesity from all the antibiotics there putting in from the the meat. The amount of people it is affecting is outstanding, not only for the meat...
In addition to the personal health risks associated with eating meat, dairy, and eggs, the production of these foods brings significant risks to the public health. Factory farms create pathogenic microbes resistant to antibiotics, cause substantial air pollution, and continually expose humanity to risk...
on to us (Washington Post). Antibiotics are now supplied on a regular basis just to keep animals alive in the crowded and depressing conditions in the factory farms. Inevitably bacteria are building up resistance, and people have already died from simple infections that refused to respo...
because the animals on factory farms are treated so badly and they're so sick that the only thing keeping them alive are mega doses of antibiotics. The role of animal agriculture in cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer, obesity. The fact that 90% of rainforest deforestation is...
Low levels of antibiotics are sometimes given to patients, so they won't develop infections, and to animals used for milk and meat production, so they won't get sick and so they'll grow faster. These "subtherapeutic levels" of antibiotics also may help antibiotic-resistant bacteria to emerge...