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Midnight ( Midnight@slrpnk.net )  to Climate@slrpnk.net · 2 years ago

Climate change could return us to the pre-antibiotic era

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Climate change could return us to the pre-antibiotic era

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Midnight ( Midnight@slrpnk.net )  to Climate@slrpnk.net · 2 years ago
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  • Nightwatch Admin ( nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ) 
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    Well, antibiotic resistance is already increasing fast, because of the insane amounts of antibiotics used in meat “production”. Sure, hotter weather is helping but the groundwork is already laid.

    • AnonStoleMyPants ( AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz ) 
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      Not just meat industry but to everyone even with a slight cold because doctors feel like they have to “do something” or the patient is unhappy and complains.

      • Nightwatch Admin ( nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ) 
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        I always forget about that, you’re right. In my country, doctors are reluctant to prescribe antibiotics to humans, but we have a massive meat industry where it is applied lavishly, often illegally - there is hardly any oversight and it is a cheap way to store even more animals per square foot.

  • Drusas ( Drusas@kbin.run ) 
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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.

    • JackGreenEarth ( JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ) 
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      How would we not all starve without industrial agriculture? Not sure what you mean exactly.

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        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.

        • JackGreenEarth ( JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ) 
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          I knew crops used pesticides and stuff, why would they use antibiotics too?

          • Dav ( Dav@lemm.ee ) 
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            I would assume hes talking about livestock farming

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              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.

              • Drusas ( Drusas@kbin.run ) 
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                Animal agriculture is absolutely agriculture. That’s why there’s a term for it, called animal agriculture.

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    climate change? we’re all not going to survive the next trump presidency

    • Avid Amoeba ( avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ) 
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      we’re not all going to survive the next trump presidency

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        deleted by creator

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      Barring a full nuclear war, I think large parts of Asia, Africa and Europe will survive. Probably.

  • hungryphrog ( hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    shit.

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