Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists

bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Sniatch@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just another good reason to not eat animals

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Don’t look at what being used to fertilize your fruits and vegetables. Don’t look at what being sprayed on any of those fruits and vegetables. Don’t look at any of the other pieces of the food chain.

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    • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I assume you’re talking about manure, but I think industrially-made fertilizers made from hydrocarbons/phosphor/potash are way, way more common, no?

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      • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I mean that all depends on the organization whether they consider it organic or not and they’re not using man-made fertilizer and using natural fertilizers etc. I think quite more of the people that are into that type of lifestyle are more interested in eating organically which it’s more common to utilize something like a manure fertilizer.

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    • Sniatch@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The animals eat the same food so in the end you can’t escape it. But you can stop to make animals suffer for your burger.

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    • girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s why, in general you should look into non-GMO or organic foods. There are a few fruits and vegetables that are hardy on their own, but berries, broccoli, spinach, etc tend to absorb the chemicals used by farmers and people are indirectly ingesting them.

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      • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Check out this guy. Still doesn’t understand what fertilizer is made of. Especially organic…

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• TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We still give them shitloads yeah, but it’s complicated. Changes have been made globally. There’s basically no risk to us. The antibiotics don’t get into our food, and the superbugs that might breed aren’t viable in humans. Wild animals still pose more risk.

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    and the superbugs that might breed aren’t viable in humans.

    But diseases jump from non-humans to humans all the time?
    At least, Wikipedia chooses to spell out the sentence “Most human diseases originated in non-humans” and lists a who’s who of pandemics as such: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonosis

    Or do you mean something different?

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• Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, from what I understand, countries try to regulate the use of antibiotics, so that we don’t blow the most potent ones, a.k.a. new ones, right away. But on some level, we’re reliant on regularly discovering new antibiotics, which isn’t great.

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• tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  oh my man/lass, next time you buy a tangerine have a look at the label on what they put on the skin

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They also have to remember that doesn’t count what gets put in the ground to fertilize that plant to make it grow.

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