The is is interesting. I thought the US would be much higher. Though doesn’t surprise me to see china so high up
Survey was for antibiotics not steroids
Ah - that was why I was so confused. Canada, for example, limits the growth hormone in dairy cattle while the US does not.
Hormone-free milk is widely available in the US, it just costs a little more
Tbh, I don’t think I’ve ever seen hormone treated milk for sale in the US. They always say “not treated with rbst”, then have the disclaimer that rbst does not produce significantly different milk.
I just assumed the hormone treated cow milk was used for making industrial foods like cheezit cheese or something.
Canadian milk also costs a little more in comparison.
Light blue is bang on in the middle so it’s still quite a lot.
I mean, we’re doing better than basically every other 1st world country, and those that are beating us don’t have big livestock industries.
The UK and New Zealand are both big livestock producers which are doing well on this metric. But yes, the US is doing alright overall here
Are Nordic countries invisible to you?
The U.S. has to pretend that they don’t exist because it would cause them to face a lot of big issues otherwise.
we’re doing better than basically every other 1st world country
You must have a very unusual definition of first world.
“Bang on in the middle” of the legend, but not of the data. And below the middle of the legend, actually. The bottom half of the legend covers 0 - 50 while the top half covers 50 - 200+. The US is at 31 mg/kg as of 2020
Good point I feel like this graphic could use some improvements tbh 🧐
It’s perfect because it generated discussion!
It’s pretty clear to me. 50 is there safe threshold as mentioned, everything below is safe, marked as blue and everything above is dangerous, marked as increasingly darker red. Looks quite nice and gets the point across imo.
31mg too much
31mg is weak for a grown adult human. That means the average shows widespread low-level use OR high volumes for very low numbers, which is how it’s supposed to be when a patient has poor circulation from a lack of motion.
If you constantly eat meat with antibiotics in you’re increasing your tolerance to antibiotics no matter the amount. So when you actually need antibiotics they’re going to do fuck all for you
A) “You” as in your mammalian cells don’t care about (most) antibiotics. Your intestinal microbiome does, however. But it doesn’t exactly get resistant. B) Antibiotica used in medicine are generally reserved for medical purposes. High usage in agriculture is not pretty, sure, and certainly won’t help multi-resistant pathogen issues, but your statement is wrong regardless.
This is an average across the entire industry, not an indication of the dosage given to a single animal. Some animals will be on none, and others will be on a clinically appropriate dose as necessary
It’s impossible to use 0 unless you just want to let animals die from and spread infections. We live in a world in which bacteria and animals have been in an evolutionary arms race for a billion years
I feel like we shouldn’t be eating meat if we have to jump through so much shit to “make it work”. Putting increasing your tolerance to antibiotics on the top of the cake and it’s a no go for health reasons alone.
There are differences with using antibiotics to make something work and to lower infection rates. China has 200+mg of Antibiotics usage. This is a clear case of using Antibiotics to make meat production possible, because theres no way you need this many antibiotics without some deep rooted problems. The US has A fraction of this. I don’t want to decline that, especially in bigger farms, antibiotics are used to make it work(at least partially), but I would guess that its often really just to treat sick animals.
But we don’t have to jump through so much shit to make it work. We use science to treat or eliminate health issues in animals that existed well before modern medicine, or even before domestication. Be clear I’m not talking about the horrors of factory farming, but about veterinary medicine. People suffered before modern medicine too, but we’ve reduced mortality by a ton
Antibiotics can be good, actually
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Thank
Russian meat be like:
“I just want to be clean!”
this should be adjusted for amount produced … in chile the antibiotic usage is high but we mostly consume meat from Argentina and Brasil
But it’s per kilogram of meat (produced).
Brazil certainly should be broken down by state, I imagine the USA as well.
My state in south Brazil has VERY strict controls on animals entering the state so we can use less antibiotics and other stuff.
Then you’d likely have to do that for every country with subdivisions that affect the chart
Can someone explain the disparity between Australia’s and New Zealand’s use of antibiotics in meat?
In addition to what others said, they likely have different percentages of livestock. Beef vs. Dairy vs. Sheep, etc
Different countries, different laws.
Probably exports. Small population + large number of exports, it’s possible the per capita scaling skews this.
Wait, is this really true? I always assumed US was on the bad side of this trend
Americas is low because they are cheap bastards, not out of any concern for food quality or animal welfare.
Informative shitpost.
It’s probably misinformation.
>china being a shithole again
every time
Thankfully I live in a country where they use it very sparse. Unfortunately, not alle the meat I consume is comming from my country…
Are the nordics low because of cleaner feed operations, or are the nordics zero because it’s been banned?
In Scandinavia they have a policy to minimize the use of antibiotics, even on people, to prevent antibiotic resistance.
Which has two sides to it. It is very hard to get antibiotics unless there is a clear sign of a specific infection going on, e.g. after a tick bite those red circles on the skin.
In any other case just having high fever for a bit does not prompt doctors to check for bacterial infections. Instead they ask you how long you got that fever and if you say anything lower than 6/7 days they simply tell you to come back after 6/7 days if the fever isn’t gone still. Only then they run a blood test and prescribe antibiotics, should you have a bacterial infection.
I understand the idea but you could probably test much earlier and give the antibiotics, if useful, earlier so that people can avoid feeling miserable for just a few days instead of a whole week. It also just prompts people to lie about how long they’ve been sick, just in case.
Oh, yeah. Exaggerating your symptoms is the only way to make doctors take your condition seriously. Unless you are a pregnant woman, or a cancer patient. Nordic healthcare is sometimes frustrating in small ways.
Still sounds leaps and bounds better than the US system that my family and I have been ground through for these past several decades.
Sure, but that wasn’t the question here.
Luigi started the work, y’all need to finish it.
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I mean I’m not sure I see anything wrong with what you’ve described.
My friends not in Scandinavia used to have slight fever for a couple of months before going to a doctor to find out it was pneumonia. I wonder, how Scandinavian doctors react to slight fever, not a bad fever, and if they send you back home then this an example of what’s wrong. Other than that it’s likely a good idea to try to make one’s body heal itself, if the immune system is not compromised
I mean having a slight fever for a while is not something to be concerned about or honestly often not something to go to a doctor for, unless it lasts or worsens. Though if your friend waited a couple of months then your friend might be a bit stupid.
Easy to not use any when you can just freeze bacteria to death lol
Agriculture isn’t terribly industrialised in Sweden and Norway. So smaller farms means fewer animals get infected when something is going around. And fewer practises like weaning piglets early and giving them prophylactic antibiotics.
And the projection makes them look big on the map.
how much antibiotics should i take if i go to china? im around 70 kilos
Depends on how long you want to remain in Chinese prison
Depends, do you plan on being eaten?
I get the color coding, I don’t like it.
Aren’t colors fun
Is this true? Every Chinese person I know says the US is more than China and it affects meat flavor
Might be true here I found this https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7766021/figure/antibiotics-09-00918-f001/
yeah I’m sure the chinese citizens only get told correct information by their government. I can’t imagine there being false propaganda in china
I got another answer in a comment that may be why
I mean, thats asking the fox what he did in the hen house, to coin a paraphrase. Chinese citizens are generally very nationalistic and have a very skewed perspective due to the near total control of information the government has.
I got an interesting answer from family. They said they only get countryside local chicken this way they don’t get the factory chicken with all the meds. These are typically used in restaurants not homes.
This makes sense!
And this is another reason why statistics from China may not be accurate. How much of the population is getting their food in the same manner and it isn’t recorded by the government?
Do you really think that China, the country most known for its massive cities and factory farms, really gets a meaningful amount of animal protein from local farms?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/278566/urban-and-rural-population-of-china/
They have 477 million people living in rural areas.
Great point :) honestly can any nationwide statistic be accurate for any state?
Mmmmh… Antibiotic with taste of chicken… Yummy…
