Antibiotics for lunch and dinner
The impact on health
farming systems not only hurt the animals, but also have an impact on human health.
One of the many aspects of meat is harmful to health quite seriously, are the antibiotics used on factory farms, which are legal or not (in fact they are imported every year by the Italian breeders about 900t in an illegal way of antibiotics, steroids, hormones, steroids, anti-inflammatories, vaccines, etc..), among the best known
effects on the body of one who if it feeds usually include various
chronic intestinal diseases and drug unintended and dangerous (which some studies may even be transmitted from generation to generation through the genes!).
This huge business, fills the pockets of farmers on the shoulders of the health of the unsuspecting (or more frequently simply masochists) consumers, just think of the fact that a cow that produces hormones and antibiotics are administered up to 20% more milk, not just an increase. The
farms joined these practices are no less
health hazard that encourages as we have already seen in several situations in recent years
rise of new diseases
more resistant than normal.
looking more specifically, an average Italian consumes 87kg of meat each year (excluding fish products farmed anchessi are treated with antibiotics, then the estimate is too pessimistic!) Ingests an average of 9g of antibiotics, in practice 4 therapies are not required.
For every pound of flesh is used on average 100mg of antibiotics, some of which accumulate in the tissues and they end up on the table.
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controls in this food by the Italian state are almost non-existent
, investigations each year do not touch that one, 6% of the total, another duty certified by our constitution but which the state does not seem to respect (Art.32 the Republic protects health of the citizen, ed.) According
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EFSA (European Food Security Authority) of the most common pathogens
with likely resistance to antibiotics that are transmitted through the meat
include:
- the Salmonella typhimurium and parathyphimurium ( the infection is transmitted by eggs and meat, especially poultry and pork) and Staphylococcus aureus, Campylobacter jejuni and coli.
- particular strains of Escherichia coli , cause hemorrhagic colitis and renal failure. This bacterium penetrates meat and milk from the faeces of the animal, but also through the water. The "red zone" is represented by the ground beef, raw (hence the English word hamburger disease). But the danger exists for those who feed on chicken, lamb and pork.
According to the FAO
, following the current growth in meat consumption will double by 2050, this would amount to
ecological collapse, health and economic Earth. Dr. Roberta Bartocci of
LAV :
"People always pay more for their health, a method of animal production highly risky. And 'necessary to convert the current food system towards a' sustainable 'from the beginning no longer to consider animals as food or as food because it is not essential proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and beneficial fats are widely available in the plant world ". The size of the business
Recently
FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has released data about the rather interesting phenomenon.
Of antibiotics sold in 2009 and is intended to humans and animals for human consumption, as the '
80% was reserved for livestock and poultry , a total of 13.1 million pounds. For a large percentage of these antibiotics are not administered
precisely to combat bacterial infections, but rather a continuous and
in small quantities through food and water in order to ccellerare the rate of growth and production of milk / eggs of animals. This practice has raised concerns of many public health experts and organizations such as the LAV
.
The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is largely attributable to excessive and inappropriate use of antibiotics for humans and animals, which leads to increased use of "super-bacteria
.
The awarding of the doctoral thesis of the 3rd and 4th call UNAR-CRUI be held in Rome March 21, 2011 at the Aula of the University Jubilee LUMSA (Via di Porta Castello, 44). 
Eight-thirty in the morning. And 'the twenty-sixth of April 2010 in Sarajevo and the sky is overcast, as always, we have to wait May for the first rays of sunshine in the city. I take a taxi, via Dobojska direction, it's cold and it's early, but the retired general even if he does not like delays, punctuality and respect are the legacy that the job has left him. As soon as you utter the address the driver smiles at me, he knows that I'm going to Jovan Divjak, has accompanied many scholars and journalists curious about the history of ethics iron man in the name of its principles has always put at risk its position, defending the community and the multiculturalism of Serb Sarajevo under siege. Although he himself Serbian. And by giving up his military career for which he does not like to be too still called "General" has been established for fifteen years an organization that awards scholarships to orphans of war and ethnic Roma children without any distinction. 
