Antibiotics ( Archived) (20)

Antibiotics are sometimes referred to as the overworked miracle. All living things even microbial ones evolve to meet any threat. If that threat is a poison or some other chemical it will reap havoc on the general population but there might be one mutation that is resistant. It could be one in ten billion and take decades to appear but it will eventually happen. This gives us some real time in medical situations but the food supply companies and their lobbies have accelerated this out of all proportion.

The modern mass animal production has seen large numbers of chickens, cows, pigs and many more animal food growers cram them into smaller and smaller places. This would be economically catastrophic if certain diseases were to infest the heard. They are fed antibiotics in there feed as it prevents this from happening as well as promotes growth in the livestock. This has the unfortunate effect of accelerating the resistant strains and then it is released to the general food processing industry and eventually you. There have been many attempts over the years to stop this practice but the food lobby is just too strong and entranced to make headway. That is why most of the early common medicines are not effective anymore.

Well, don't think that it is completely hopeless. The giant food conglomerates will make billions to continue there extravagant lifestyle and if you should happen to get sick from this and the current form of cure is not working then without the health care they just ended you and the disease will both die out and it will be a momentary end of the problem.

Even as he announced penicillin to the world Fleming warned against their over use ...

You hit the nail on the head 'Every life form strives to adpat in order to ensure it's own survival ...' and in that respect the 'simpler form of life' are better placed to make rapid changes whereas the more complex forms of life ( aka US Humans) take far longer because we have to ensure that 'the changes' are compatible across a wider range of organs, tissues bones and bio-systems'

It's also aprt of the reason why no cure can be found for the virus that creates the common cold ... lol, it;'s not so common ... it's constantly evolving for it's own best survival

Viruses are not complete living things. They need a host to live in as well as to use it'd DNA to reproduce. That is why it mutates so fast and also why certain strains like HIV are so hard to eradicate. Fortunately, most viral strains are recognized and eliminated in human hosts. The yeast and other microbial organisms are a little more evolved so as to take longer. The brooder houses and large corporate farms make more money by adding more and more livestock to the current growth cycle. This promotes the spread of disease much quicker so to prevent this they feed regular doses of antibiotics to the stock. What they become is large breeding grounds for resistant strains. Nice to know that McDonalds and Swift Premium will make more billions on your health ( or lack thereof).

No wonder they got rid of the health care bill. Who wants the Government spending billions on it's people when General Dynamics can use it to make more billions.