We Vegeterian People

Author(s): Atul Doshi
Publisher: Atul Doshi

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Antibiotics
(9.) About 80% of antibiotics produced are fed to livestock (report of June, 2014) -Antibiotics are used to help animals to survive the barbaric conditions in factory farms until slaughter, as well as make them grow faster. Fearing spread of antibiotic
POISON resistance through the food chain, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) and the Agriculture Ministry have directed state governments to stop the use of antibiotics and hormones in animal feed. Regular feeding of antibiotics has serious consequences on human beings since residue of antibiotics may accumulate in milk, meat and eggs.
Consumption of antibiotic contaminated meat, milk and eggs may develop antibiotic resistance in both animals and human beings.
India's move comes within a month of a World Health Organization (WHO) report warning that antimicrobial resistance is an increasingly serious threat in every part of the world.
(Note- What will be the impact of this direction to State Governments ? Who will do this ? How it will be done? It seems very difficult to implement this. Antibiotics are given to increase milk production. We need to reduce demand for milk to stop this serious threat to our health). (10. After two months of detailed investigation, Journalist of Mid Day Newspaper published a report of serious implications on human health due to oxitocin injections given to animals. http://archive.midday.com/news/2013/jun/110613-banned-drug-injected-into-cattle-is-poisoni ng-your-milk.htm 11. Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn from the Cleveland Clinic (the top-rated heart clinic in the U.S.) makes people "heart attack-proof" by putting them on a vegan diet (American Journal of Cardiology, August 99). Dr. Dean Ornish of the University of California in San Francisco has demonstrated that artery blockages can be reversed with a low-fat vegan diet instead of expensive and invasive surgeries. He is the author of the bestseller 'Reversing Heart Disease.'
Every glass of milk is a cocktail composed of one or more of the following -pus, antibiotics, pesticides, urea, and hormones.
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