"Bacteria are rebelling. They’re turning the tide against antibiotics by outsmarting our wonder drugs. This video explores the surprising reasons": nytimes.com/video/health/10...
Excellent 9-minute video concisely explaining our tightly woven global relationship with bacteria, antibiotics, food & farming practices, economy, etc. over the long haul.
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Just in case anyone has difficulty accessing the video from the link above, it’s also posted here: wral.com/revenge-of-the-bac...
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[Can’t find the video on YouTube, but believe it’s worth sharing/ spreading (like spreading "good" bacteria 🦠 🦠 🦠). ]
You might find it interesting as it ties together ➰ (with a bow 🎀 ) a lot of disparate — seemingly unrelated — elements into a simple, clear, logical presentation (a neat, comprehensible package 🎁 ) that even us layman can grasp! ☺️ 👍👍
Food being a foundational/ critical element essential to healthy bacteria 🦠 , healthy living 🧬 , healthy planet 🌍 , healthy life-cycle ♻️ . . .
Just watched the video. Most of it is stuff we already have heard, although I was quite shocked at the risk to organic food from the manure used to fertilise it!
I'm not sure if that bit is entirely accurate. An organic farm would not be permitted to use manure from a non-organic operation, surely? Also, manure is not applied directly to the soil: it's composted first. The bacterial population in properly-aged manure is completely different to the original profile.
My understanding is that food-borne diseases typically come from the soil itself. Because modern humans have very poor immune function, we're more likely to get a dose of food poisoning from a relatively modest bacterial load.
Absolutely disgraceful how antibiotics are misused in agriculture though. AFAIK it's been scaled back considerably in the UK, but the nature of factory farms is that the animals must be dosed up fairly regularly or there would be epidemics. In the US at least, antibiotics are still routinely added to animal feeds.
It just doesn't seem to occur to TPTB that nature will, eventually, insist that enough is enough, and there will be a massive animal (or human) epidemic that can't be contained. It's not like we haven't had several near misses these past few years.
Anyone who wants to know more about this subject might be interested in "The Drugs Don't Work" by Prof. Sally Davies.
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