Climate change could return us to the pre-antibiotic era
Climate change could return us to the pre-antibiotic era
We are in a race with ever-evolving bacteria — and we are losing. Climate change is making the battle much harder
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We're getting there without climate change.
Stop supporting industrial agriculture, which is a leading cause of antibiotic resistance.
Stop asking your doctor for antibiotics. You don't need it for a viral infection and they know that better than you do.
How would we not all starve without industrial agriculture? Not sure what you mean exactly.
I think they mean more like plant-based diets where the farmers aren't using antibiotics to cause physical growth.
Just because they're plants doesn't make it not industrial.
Yes, I know. They probably should have phrased it differently. Can we agree there are fewer antibiotics on the crops, though, and that is likely what they meant?
Industrial agriculture, in the United States at least, relies extremely heavily on the use of antibiotics. If there is ever a future in which that is not the case, go ahead and support industrial agriculture if you want to (I'm keeping this strictly to the antibiotic problem). But as it is now, supporting industrial agriculture is also supporting the misuse of antibiotics and the growth of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
I knew crops used pesticides and stuff, why would they use antibiotics too?
I would assume hes talking about livestock farming
That's not agriculture though, crops are. And crops are at least included in agriculture, even if you would expand the definition to also include animals, which I wouldn't.
Animal agriculture is absolutely agriculture. That's why there's a term for it, called animal agriculture.