31mg too much
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protist@mander.xyz 3 days ago“Bang on in the middle” of the legend. Well, below the middle of the legend. The bottom half of the legend covers 0 - 50 while the top half covers 50 - 200+. The US is at 31 mg/kg as of 2020
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
protist@mander.xyz 3 days ago
It’s impossible to use 0 unless you just want to let animals die from and spread infections. We live in a world in which bacteria and animals have been in an evolutionary arms race for a billion years
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I feel like we shouldn’t be eating meat if we have to jump through so much shit to “make it work”. Putting increasing your tolerance to antibiotics on the top of the cake and it’s a no go for health reasons alone.
protist@mander.xyz 3 days ago
But we don’t have to jump through so much shit to make it work. We use science to treat or eliminate health issues in animals that existed well before modern medicine, or even before domestication. Be clear I’m not talking about the horrors of factory farming, but about veterinary medicine
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 days ago
There are differences with using antibiotics to make something work and to lower infection rates. China has 200+mg of Antibiotics usage. This is a clear case of using Antibiotics to make meat production possible, because theres no way you need this many antibiotics without some deep rooted problems. The US has A fraction of this. I don’t want to decline that, especially in bigger farms, antibiotics are used to make it work(at least partially), but I would guess that its often really just to treat sick animals.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 days ago
31mg is weak for a grown adult human. That means the average shows widespread low-level use OR high volumes for very low numbers, which is how it’s supposed to be when a patient has poor circulation from a lack of motion.
protist@mander.xyz 3 days ago
This is an average across the entire industry, not an indication of the dosage given to a single animal. Some animals will be in none, and others will be on a clinically appropriate dose as necessary
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
If you constantly eat meat with antibiotics in you’re increasing your tolerance to antibiotics no matter the amount. So when you actually need antibiotics they’re going to do fuck all for you
Phineaz@feddit.org 3 days ago
A) “You” as in your mammalian cells don’t care about (most) antibiotics. Your intestinal microbiome does, however. But it doesn’t exactly get resistant. B) Antibiotica used in medicine are generally reserved for medical purposes. High usage in agriculture is not pretty, sure, and certainly won’t help multi-resistant pathogen issues, but your statement is wrong regardless.
casmael@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Good point I feel like this graphic could use some improvements tbh 🧐
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s perfect because it generated discussion!
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It’s pretty clear to me. 50 is there safe threshold as mentioned, everything below is safe, marked as blue and everything above is dangerous, marked as increasingly darker red. Looks quite nice and gets the point across imo.