two stories, the first on farming, the second a short follow-up to last year's show about the drug-resistant bacteria outbreak within the nih (ebola is saturating media coverage, and i wanted to see this frontline get some attention).
when i was a kid, we raised grass-fed, free range black angus for slaughter, and routinely gave the entire healthy herd antibiotics (any sick cattle were segregated from the heard and treated separately, very rare). i never thought to ask why, but now suspect we were using the antibiotics to increase the weight of the cattle before sale, which has been common since the 40's & 50's. we also supplemented their diet with special feed for 6 weeks to promote weight gain.
this show details the fda's attempts to warn us about drug resistant antibiotics 40 years ago, when cattle and pharma lobbies were able to immediately shut down the discussion in congress. it appears the drug resistance, number of infections, and number of resistant bacteria have only gotten worse, and the fda still hasn't taken any significant steps to document the issues in order to address the problem since their failure in the 70's. what will it take for the fda to take steps in order to re-focus attention on this issue?
when i was a kid, we raised grass-fed, free range black angus for slaughter, and routinely gave the entire healthy herd antibiotics (any sick cattle were segregated from the heard and treated separately, very rare). i never thought to ask why, but now suspect we were using the antibiotics to increase the weight of the cattle before sale, which has been common since the 40's & 50's. we also supplemented their diet with special feed for 6 weeks to promote weight gain.
this show details the fda's attempts to warn us about drug resistant antibiotics 40 years ago, when cattle and pharma lobbies were able to immediately shut down the discussion in congress. it appears the drug resistance, number of infections, and number of resistant bacteria have only gotten worse, and the fda still hasn't taken any significant steps to document the issues in order to address the problem since their failure in the 70's. what will it take for the fda to take steps in order to re-focus attention on this issue?
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