M6.6 Blog: Use of Antibiotics

1. Prior to reading this article, I knew that antibiotics where used in the food industry, but never really understood why or how. The fact that the food industry uses more antibiotics than for medical purposes is absolutely mind blowing and hard to wrap my head around.  What makes me extremely concerned, and something I wish I knew prior to reading this article, is that we can become antibiotic resistant by consuming such, foods which makes us even more susceptible to illnesses/disease-scary.
2.The fact that living conditions for livestock have become so bad that it is know impacting the surrounding community is just heart breaking. For one, such animals should be granted with greater living conditions regardless, and two, shouldn't this superbug tell us something about our food?! we need to make changes ASAP.
3.OMG I swear by hand sanitizer in the outside world!! This article is truly eye opening and has me second guessing myself when I reach for some hand sanitizer. I also knew that hand washing was and will always be the answer to keeping germs away, but i have noticed i have become heavily reliant on hand sanitizers, antibacterial soaps, wipes, etc and this article reminds me that some good old fashion cleaning and washing is just as effective.
4. I find this to get very interesting as I can see how it could be effective in preventing the spread of disease, but I question for how long or how powerful the ingredients are to repel most illnesses and diseases. I cant imagine that someone with a bad cough/flu sits in a chair, coughs all over it, and the next person is free from infection- i just don't see how that would work.

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  1. UnknownDecember 5, 2018 at 5:50 PM

    ya antibiotic resistance is a super scary thing! use hand sanitizer ONLY when you have no other option !

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