Thanks for this post, and link. I hadn't seen it. It is becoming obvious we cannot continue feeding animals antibiotics....either that, or something has to change. Or we face deadly outbreaks of infections for which there is no cure.
Not consuming any animal products of course, would be protective. It's the day-to-day consumption of minute amounts of antibiotic through the food obtained from these animals, which causes antibiotic resistance.
This is bound to be affecting our own pets and meat-eating animals too.
However, I was pleased to find out that my neighbouring farm does not use preventative antibiotics for their dairy cows. I asked, a few years ago, and the farmer told me they will only use antibiotics in cases of illness (such as mastitis etc) and then that particular cow's milk isn't included in the yield for a couple of weeks (I think he said 2 weeks.)
If that's their practice, it may be the same for all the farms in this area.
The one good thing about dairy farming in my area is that although not a perfect life for cows, it isn't factory-farming, and the cows live fairly decent lives under their circumstances.
Not consuming any animal products of course, would be protective. It's the day-to-day consumption of minute amounts of antibiotic through the food obtained from these animals, which causes antibiotic resistance.
This is bound to be affecting our own pets and meat-eating animals too.
However, I was pleased to find out that my neighbouring farm does not use preventative antibiotics for their dairy cows. I asked, a few years ago, and the farmer told me they will only use antibiotics in cases of illness (such as mastitis etc) and then that particular cow's milk isn't included in the yield for a couple of weeks (I think he said 2 weeks.)
If that's their practice, it may be the same for all the farms in this area.
The one good thing about dairy farming in my area is that although not a perfect life for cows, it isn't factory-farming, and the cows live fairly decent lives under their circumstances.
