Broiler chicken : Good or Bad?
The environmental science journal Down to Earth
has highlighted the problem by analysing the antibiotic content in the chicken
meat obtained from various markets in its labs, and the results are alarming.
Typical antibiotics found in the chicken liver, muscles and kidney are the tetracyclines (such as doxycycline), fluoroquinolones (such as enrofloxacin) and aminoglycosides (such as neomycin).
Why are these dangerous?
Repeated and prolonged exposure will lead to the emergence of resistant strains of bacteria.
And these resistant strains will be passed on to the humans who consume them.
Even the un-mutated bacteria in the meat can directly unleash an assault on the microbes in our guts.And note too that the antibiotics used in poultry are the same as the ones used for humans.
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