Concerns grow over
farm drugs used like 'sweets'
Thursday, May 29,
2014
The widespread
use of antibiotics on farms without medical supervision has been condemned at a
meeting of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE). There are
particular concerns about the US where authorities say it contributes
significantly to resistance. The drugs are given as prophylactics to
livestock to help them avoid illnesses that are transmitted easily between
beasts confined in large-scale feed lots.
According to the wide spread of
the drug usage in farming by the incompetent farmers, it’s essential for
everyone to know the effect of using any drugs in agriculture, especially in
farming because farming’s products are the main factors for living and doing
any activities. Therefore, the government must concern and have some strict
regulations to control the usage of dangerous drugs for our health.
The drugs are
also used to boost the animal's weight. But the large-scale use has
prompted concerns that microbes will develop resistance. Earlier this
year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said this abuse of the drugs
led to 23,000 deaths from infections resistant to treatment.
Moreover, the
usage of dangerous drugs was spread around the world so why it’s the serious
problem that want to be solved promptly. In Europe, the drugs on farms are more
tightly controlled and their use as a growth aid is banned. The scale of
the threat from both human and animal was underlined at this meeting by the
director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO).
As you can see, you can’t prove
what are inside the foods which were eaten by us every day by yourself and it’s
necessary to be sure that what you eat must be good for health ,and the basic
for this case is to concern and choose what you eat carefully. Moreover, there
must be the measures for decreasing the effect and spreading of poisonous drug
usage.
Reference
Concerns
grow over farm drugs used like 'sweets'. (2014, May 29). BBC Science News. Retrieved May 29 , 2014 from http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27541663
Nowadays, many people concern about their health and want to choose the best thing for themselves, so they find for organic foods which are free from dangerous drugs or pesticides. The problem is that we don't know what are inside the foods, like you say above. Government should be responsible for controlling the use of any drugs in farms, and we should be careful when we want to buy any foods. I think the department store, such as Tesco Lotus or Big C, is the good place to buy the farming's products that are standardized.
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