The growing threat of resistance to antibiotics
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Just seen a most disturbing interview on RT's "Going Underground" programme. The interviewee talked of the imminent rise in the death rate in countries like the UK – doubling, trebling even quadrupling. Why? Because of the growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. Two thirds of antibiotics are used in farming as production tools to lower costs because the supermarkets' demand for cheaper meat products from the farmers. So the profit motive is directly and incontrovertibly contributing to a situation where, in the future, if we needed – say – chemotherapy or a hip replacement, we might not be able to get these things because it will be considered too dangerous without supportive anti-biotics. This is insane. Our "glorious" market economy is based on the economics of the madhouse and this is becoming more and more obvious in more and more ways. In this particular case the prospects are quite frightening frankly and could very directly affect you or I next time we are hospitalised. Here's some info from Compassion in World Farming. Check out some of the free downloads
Fortunately the evil truth seeking scientists are on the case. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v517/n7535/full/nature14098.html I believe is was set going by partially unrelated bluesky technical research at just looking at ways to grow soil bacteria in the lab, that had been notoriously difficult, to just look at them.The potential seems to be enormous.
Once more the subject of the increasing resistance to existing anti-biotics, the over-use of them in livestock farming has been covered by our SOYMB blog in a number of posts.http://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/search?q=antibiotics
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