Informative Feature

Recent years, FDA released its first ever report about MRSA(T398). The MRSA is an antibiotic-resistant bacteria and MRSA has killed 18,600 people in just 2005 alone. This number is staggering because in 2005, AIDS/HIV killed 17,000 people. Antiboitic-resistant bacteria such as MRSA are man-made. The medical overuse of antibiotics is one danger, but the most hidden and biggest factor is the excessice use of antiboitics in food production. They are created because people feed excess amounts of anti-biotic to livestock. In 2009, farms used 29 million pounds of antiboitics for livestock only. These antibiotics keeps them alive in unsanitary conditions and this practice leads to new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It is proven that 70% of pigs and 64% of workes in animal confinements were tested and resulted positive for the antibiotic resistant strain of MRSA. These livestock is fed such antibiotic because it allows chickens, cows, pigs etc...to grow in a faster rate which allows the farmers to have a bigger profit. Experts say that the best way to avoid such bacteria is to eat more vegetables, organic and free-range meat.