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The Institute of Food Technologists, a nonprofit group with over 22,000 members, studied over 20 years' worth of past research on antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance with a group of food scientists and microbiologists and came to the conclusion that using antibiotics to treat animals is not necessarily harmful to humans. The study was intended to provide a contrast to the claims of organic groups that promote antibiotic free foods as being the healthiest option.
While the results will be officially released tomorrow, scientists emphasize that they are not dismissing "concerns about overuse of antibiotics or antimicrobials," which can certainly be unnecessary and their overuse could even lead to the production of new, antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria. But the fact remains that the health of many animals would suffer if they were never treated with antibiotics; the cost of meat could increase, perhaps to levels that would be prohibitively expensive for some, if food production dropped and the supply of meat on the market went down.
The study does not say that antibiotics and antimicrobials are unconditionally safe, as they can certainly be overused or misused, but it does serve to reinforce the idea that food production doesn't exist in black and white or good and bad, even if there is a hard line between organic and non-organic.
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6-25-2006 @12:26PM nika said... Hmm.. are we to believe that a food industry lobby organization speaks in an unbiased manner?
Their officers and assigns:
Margaret A. Lawson – President
VP SCIENCE AND INNOVATION, D.D. WILLIAMSON (Maker of carmel colorant)
D.D. Williamson (2006-present), VP Science and Innovation; T. Hasegawa USA (1998-2006), Technical Services Manager; FMC Food Ingredients Division (1995-98), Global Business Development Manager, Technology Manager, Group Leader Product Development; New Zealand Milk Products (1990-95), Research Manager; Kelco Div. of Merck (1980-90), Food Applications Manager, Senior Pioneering Research Chemist, Staff Chemist; Ralston Purina Co (1979-80), Food Technologist; Hunt Wesson Foods (1978).
Dennis R. Heldman - President-Elect
PRINCIPAL, HELDMAN ASSOCIATES (food science consultancy)
Heldman Associates (2004-present), .. Principal; National Food Processors Association (1986-91), Executive V.P. (Scientific Affairs), CEO (The National Food Laboratory), President (The Food Processors Institute); Campbell Soup Co. (1984-86),
Nancy E. Nagle - 2006 Membership Representative
DIRECTOR, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, WAL-MART STORES, INC
Vice President, Research and Development, Dole Fresh Vegetables (1995-98); Director, Product Development, Dole Packaged Foods (1989-95); Director R&D/Quality Assurance, Orval Kent Food Company (1984-89); Hunt-Wesson Foods (1976-84): Section Head Product and Process Development, Group Leader Fats and Oils Product Development
James J. Albrecht - 2008 Membership Representative
McCormick & Co., Group V.P. Asia/Pacific Zone, Group V.P. International Div., V.P. and General Manager, McCormick Flavor Div. (1983-98); The Nestle Co. (USA), V.P. and General Manager, FIDCO, V.P. R&D (1970-82); The Coca Cola Co., V.P. Research and Product Development, Foods Div., (1967-70); International Minerals & Chemicals Corp., Manager, Market Development, Sr. Food Technologist (1959-67).
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6-25-2006 @2:58PM Franz Hemingbeck said... The only reason the meat industry has to use antibiotics in the manufacture of animal protein is because of their abhorent practices like feeding cows grain (their stomachs can't process it), cooping thousands of cows in pens where they spend their final days in a sea of their own shit, sticking chickens in coops one on top of the other so they crap on each other, and much more...
I love meat and I'm in no way a veggie head, but if an animal requires antibiotics, it should be put down.
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6-26-2006 @12:23PM Baron said... So, when someone gets strep throat, a child has an ear infection, etc. etc. and need antibiotics, they should be put down? As someone who has actually worked with livestock in a normal ranching enviroment (I've been to cattle and pig feed lots, they really are not as bad as they made out to be around here, but I've never been to a chicken feed lot or worked on any of the above. Slaughterhouses/packing plants, might be a different story though), know that animals get sick just like humans get sick. We've had to give them medicine just like any person would take (you wouldn't want to get a shot the size of some I've seen though)! :)
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6-27-2006 @11:32AM nika said... Baron - its not about the occasionally sick animal (in the feed lots I dont think they get shots so much as put down faster) but using antibiotics prophylactically to allow for high density packing of animals.. same in aquaculture (fish and shrimp).
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6-27-2006 @4:04PM Baron said... I know it, I was just making a point about what seemed to be an overly broad statement. The feedlots around where I used to live were quite decent to the animals. Sick ones were taken care of, probably not as well as if on a ranch with a lot of money (some of my small rancher friends would have to put them down quite fast as they did not have the funds to keep them well if they were not productive in some form or fashion). Feedlots make money on healthy animals!
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