Essential oils as an evidence-based alternative to antibiotics in chicken feed?
As the poultry industry tries to get away from routine antibiotic use, they're looking for different options (not out of the goodness of their hearts - eventually they will be forced to, so that we don't all die from infections of antibiotic resistant bacteria). Essential oils from plants like oregano and garlic are proving to be good for overall chicken health as well as specifically for coccidiosis and salmonella.
Capitalizing on this, you can now find chicken feed with oregano and other essential oils - marketing ploy or science? Maybe a little bit of both!
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Prescription laws only make sense in cases where drug resistance could be a thing like antibiotics/antiparasitics/antivirals. I don't believe in "addiction", but I do believe in drug resistant diseases.
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Sometimes i am struck by how much of pet ownership, especially elderly pet ownership, resembles parenthood in the sense that you will spend a distressing amount of time keeping tabs on poop
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The One Health approach for fighting antibiotic abuse that views the health of animals, people and the environment as a single unit becomes all the more important in India. According to a study by the think tank Centre for Science and Environment conducted in Delhi, more than 40 percent of the chicken samples tested had antibiotics in them as growth promoters to fatten the meat. When people consume these antibiotic-laced chicken, they end up developing antibiotic resistance even though they might have never directly consumed them. Further, the rampant use of antibiotics in cattle feed shows up in the milk consumed by humans, leading to further antibiotic resistance even in vegetarians.
Arman Khan, ‘The Rise and Rise of Antibiotic Abuse in India’, VICE
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have an infected finger and my dr was like “soak it until the finger gets prune-y every day and after a few days it will drain” it’s so swollen with infection that it can’t prune 😭 I’ve got my whole hand in a water bowl and all my other fingers and my palm are RAISIN-Y but the infected finger is just big 😭 anyone got any advice I’m dying over here
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