Monday, December 09, 2019

Buy your pork from Denmark

The use of more antibiotics can result in dangerous germs having more opportunities to evolve and outsmart drugs designed to kill them. Drug-resistant infections now claim 700,000 lives a year around the world, including 35,000 in the United States. Without bold action, the United Nations has estimated drug-resistant pathogens could claim 10 million lives globally by 2050.

Denmark, which is a major producer of pork, has cut way back on the use of antibiotics on
pigs. Here, they use antibiotics at a rate seven times higher than that of Danish farmers. In Denmark one quarter or more of some swine arrive at the abattoir without ever having received any antimicrobial drugs.

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