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The UN predicts that antimicrobial resistance will be our biggest killer by 2050. "That should really scare the hell out of all of us," says bioprocess engineer Leon Marchal. He's working on an urgently needed solution: transforming the massive, global animal feed industry. Learn why the overuse of antibiotics in animal products, from livestock feed to everyday pet treats, has skyrocketed worldwide — and how we can take common-sense measures to stave off a potential epidemic.
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When lab-grown meat is viable for mass production, that’ll help the situation.
Let’s hope that comes sooner rather than later. Even just minced meat would be a great benefit for humans and planet.
It’ll never happen tho… because the snowflake leftists are trying to ban meat altogether!
I cannot believe how this world has gone so beta-soft almost overnight!!
@FLOJOtube dont know what you’re talking about.. most vegans are suporting lab grown meat.
And not all vegans are leftist.
@Hail Satan what is minced meat? As raisins and sausage in pie? What kind of handle is that? You speak of ground human meat served at fast foods supplied by Cargills? Search that 90 Cargill meat. Tested has human DNA. Young DNA. True. Enjoy your sausage and eggs and burgers.
Or just don’t eat them
Or remove the nervous system.
Exactly, what is wrong with these people they are meant to be the brightest among us….
@Lee Fwentez Neurectomia would not end the need for antibiotic treatment. Call for labgrown meat instead.
It’s the logical option. It surprises me how dumb people are willing to act just for the taste of bacon.
Even if you don’t ever eat meat of any animal, it won’t protect you from a resistant infection. This is the global problem, and the solutions need to be enacted by governments.
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Can’t we just not use them at all?
Well, yes – but factory farming itself needs to be reshaped (not just because of anti-biotics overuse). Its unsustainability is a burden on the planet and for food availability.
@Hail Satan Factory farming is more sustainable in many cases. Less land, the animals fatten quicker too, so less GHG release, less water and less feed.
Plant agriculture is by far a less impactful means of food production, even when compared to lower environmental animal products. Why grow plants to fatten animals, when we can just eat the plants?
Some people will end up broke…
And they dont want be broke
Some creatures I just have to let go, and only breed the healthy ones.
What do you mean let go?
jhunt5578 Itsobvious they mean die.
@NyxErebus I’m interested in the way in which the animals die. Pig farmers will usually pig up a sick piglet by their hind legs and smash their skull into a concrete floor. “Blunt force trauma” is perfectly legal.
Medic: *I AM FULLY CHARGED*
I just heard someone said that human extinction is predicted to be caused by resistance to antibiotics, 10 minute later TED posted this, what are the odds 😮
Or go Vegan
That will help a bit but also the fertilizer may have these same antibiotics so the threat won’t be totally eliminated
@Carmen V Livestock free organic farming using cover crops, nitrogen fixing plants and green manures instead of nitrogen fertilizers would fix that. The yields are just as good, its proven to be scalable and it regenerates the soil health.
Oh! That’s really cool! Thanks!
We need to stop putting plastics into animal feed too.
Brazil here!
I really wish that good people who do nothing would rise up and take over these bad people who will do anything including torture and murder to sustain their power. If good people do not start showing up for work, the evil people are going to take more. We don’t need marble tubs and gold faucets. We need to grow up. Good people are going to have to do something because the bad people at the top will do anything to obtain and keep what belongs to all of us.
Yeah boycott. Go Vegan.
Stop feeding sick and dead animals to our animals. Dead pets from vet clinics. Dead sick cattle allowed to be processed if they cut out the tumors approved by FDA. In your food supply.. Mad cow disease producing more dementia in humans. . Symptoms same as Alzheimer’s. They have cheap tests to identify it in animals but FDA refuses to sell Farmers test kits. Wake up America. This is just the start. Raise healthy animals in fresh air on healthy land in numbers they will thrive. They are all social beings. They are not plants. You do not need to eat meat to be healthy and survive.
But 9orporations want total control. New regulations intended to force smaller farms out of business. Especially organic farmers. Bills pending now. Speak up silent America.
heres a crazy idea,
how about not eating other animals corpses at all?
And companies like Monsanto are killing farmers in third world countries for doing this ancestral practices with plants and animals.
Perhaps Europe and the United States should stop their imperialist companies and let us teach you how is done in a healthy way .
Yira Patricia Aristizabal Peña Amen to that!
Sadly in poorer countries there is no awareness of this. Farmers can’t bear the cost and government is not interested in making and enforcing regulations.
we can also go vegan to help too
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Not to mention it kills ur microbiome