Chickens In India Are Being Fed Antibiotics, And Here¡¯s How It¡¯s Harming Our Health

In India one-third of the population is vegetarian and many people who do eat non-vegetarian food don&rsquot eat beef or pork or both. Chicken is the most popularly consumed meat here. consumption of chicken has multiplied 14 times since 1985. Broiler companies are giving farmers antibiotics for the chickens.

Sanjana GuptaUpdated: May 16, 2016, 11:48 IST
Chickens Antibiotic Resistance

In India, one-third of the population is vegetarian, and many people who do eat non-vegetarian food don¡¯t eat beef, or pork, or both, making chicken the most popularly consumed meat here. According to a report by Bloomberg, consumption of chicken has multiplied 14 times since 1985!

Broiler companies are giving farmers antibiotics for the chickens.

The Bloomberg report claims that SR Group, an Indian broiler company, gives farmers chicks to raise, and then buys them back when they are ready for slaughter. Along with the chicks, the broiler company allegedly also gives the farmers chicken feed and antibiotics for the chickens.

Chickens Antibiotic Resistance

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SR Group has denied the allegation, saying that they only use antibiotics when it is imperative and that they employ 20 trained veterinarians to monitor antibiotic use. ¡°Nobody uses antibiotics unnecessarily because we are professionals. We are not illiterate farmers. We know what we are doing,¡± said S. Ravinder Reddy, the company¡¯s technical director.

These antibiotics are harmful because they are promoting antibiotic resistance.

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Antibiotics are drugs that kill bacteria and therefore help us fight bacterial infections. From battling diseases like tuberculosis to preventing infections during and after surgeries, antibiotics are crucial to saving lives. Without them, everything from a simple hip replacement surgery to an organ transplant could be fatal.

So then, why is giving chickens antibiotics a bad thing? Well, because of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotics are effective when they are used sparingly. Taking them too often gives the bacteria a chance to adapt to the antibiotic and mutate itself in a way that the antibiotic cannot harm it. The antibiotic becomes useless against that bacterial infection, and we can no longer cure it.

According to the WHO, antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to health today.

The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report last year warning about the effects of antibiotic overuse and the increasing levels of antibiotic resistance.

"The rise of antibiotic resistance is a global health crisis. More and more governments recognise (it as) one of the greatest threats to health today," said Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the WHO. She warned that if left unchecked, drug resistance "will mean the end of modern medicine as we know it."

In the report, the WHO urges doctors around the world to use antibiotics sparingly and prescribe them only when absolutely necessary.

However, it seems like chicken farmers in India are doing the exact opposite!

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Some of the antibiotics used in India are not approved for poultry in the U.S., Canada, E.U. and Australia.

According to the Bloomberg report, SR Group is directing farmers to give chickens anywhere from three to five antibiotics over six weeks, starting from the day the chicks are delivered! These drugs are supposedly added to the birds¡¯ drinking water. One of these antibiotics is the only cure for extremely dangerous bloodstream infections in human beings. (Imagine if the antibiotic is no longer effective, how many people will die because we don¡¯t have a cure for these deadly infections!)

Out of the five antibiotics allegedly being given to the chickens, while all of them are legal in India, two of them are banned or not approved for use in the U.S., Canada, European Union and Australia. The governments of these countries have realised how widespread antibiotic use is threatening our lives, and are working to reduce consumption and prolong the efficacy of the antibiotics.

Don't get us wrong, these countries have been giving animals antibiotics for decades now and many of them continue to do so, so they are not blameless, however they are now working to create awareness about the problem and curb the use of antibiotics.

Developing countries like India, China and Brazil are using more and more antibiotics in animal husbandry.

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Globally, animals consume more antibiotics than humans, and it is believed that by 2030, animal consumption of antibiotics will increase by 67%. Most of this antibiotic consumption is predicted to be in developing countries like India, China and Brazil, as these countries are increasing livestock production to meet global demands.

¡°We have to use more medicines these days,¡± said G. Bal Reddy, an Indian farmer. ¡°Diseases have become harder to beat in the last two to three years.¡±

Thousands of people are already dying, in India especially.

The Indian government doesn¡¯t keep data on the number of deaths caused due to antibiotic resistance, but a study by researcher Ramanan Laxminarayan estimates that 58,000 newborn babies died in 2003 in India due to bacterial infections that cannot be treated by antibiotics. Microbiologists in Telengana studying the spread of bacteria in hospitals found that 6.7% of bacteria were resistant to all antibiotics.

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According to Laxminarayan, India has the highest rate of antibiotic resistance in the world! We don¡¯t have regulations that govern the use of antibiotics in livestock and antibiotics can easily be procured without prescriptions, making it hard to control their use.

Sanjana Gupta

Sanjana spent her teenage years being the cookie monster and chocolate hog, until it eventually started to dawn on her that she could not eat junk and escape exercise forever. She started exploring her passion for health and fitness ¨C and here she is!

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