Johann Hari on the real price of "cheap" meat
It's kind of ironic that the devaluation of antibiotics (via their promiscuous use in factory ag) may be more dangerous than the acclerated development of new viruses... a flu pandemic with effective antibiotics for the opportunistic bacterial infections isn't all that scary except for the most frail of immune systems. Without effective antibiotics, kind of a different story (as in 1918, yes? strep was the proximate cause of death, the flu just opened the door for strep). But it's all part of the same sorry-ass picture of cruel greed (or greedy cruelty) and reckless disregard for the commonwealth (as in Common-weal, as in well-being). The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
The only broad-spectrum anti-biotic that can be used massively is Carbolic Acid. Everything else in the old shot locker needs to be reserved for some really nasty diseases we REALLY don't want developing resistance.
