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Meat consumers are being fed antibiotics
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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Today, unscrupulous producers can pass off absolutely any meat as natural, grown without chemicals, pack it in the appropriate packaging with inviting inscriptions and put it on the counter. In addition, they can make a solid profit on their ingenuity. After all, a food product positioned as organic costs several times more than its nameless counterpart.
This is the opinion that experts have reached after examining the safety of antibiotics in meat. They studied the research of the American consumer organization Consumer Reports.
It has been established that today, when raising domestic farm animals and poultry, a wide range of modern antimicrobial drugs are used, including antibiotics and coccidiostatics, which, in addition to their direct therapeutic function, play the role of productivity stimulants, i.e. growth stimulants.
As a result, in order to prevent animal diseases caused by unsanitary conditions and to accelerate livestock growth, the main consumers of antibiotics became meat and poultry producers, not medical organizations.
In turn, uncontrolled intentional use of antimicrobial drugs leads to their accumulation in meat and, accordingly, their subsequent entry into the human body with food. In this case, their accumulation in the human body occurs and bacteria develop resistance to these drugs.
This is a time bomb! This will lead to the fact that in case of an acute infectious disease of a person, the medicines will simply not work, will not be effective. It will be necessary to look for more and more powerful and new drugs. And this takes time. And the price of this time is often people's lives.
When one of the carcasses was analyzed, four full human doses of antibiotics were found. If you eat meat like that day after day, you will develop immunity to most medications. It looks like this chicken broke into a veterinary pharmacy and, out of hunger, ate everything there. No doctor in their right mind would ever prescribe such a dose to a chicken.
The Consumer Rights Protection Society has repeatedly drawn the attention of government agencies to the need to control the use of antibiotics, both by Russian manufacturers and in imported batches. But the main problem has not been solved for years, government agencies have not made any visible efforts to restore order in this area, thereby jeopardizing the health of consumers. In addition, the latest antibiotics that appear on the pharmaceutical market meet existing requests with a great delay, and existing expert methods do not allow them to be identified. Experts from the Consumer Rights Protection Society believe that it is high time to review the current Sanitary Rules and Norms, adopt Technical Regulations for meat and meat products, update and revise the list of controlled drugs, or rather their residual quantities in finished meat raw materials and products. The assertion that manufacturers use antibiotics all over the world is fundamentally wrong. There are examples of countries that use antimicrobial drugs strictly for therapeutic purposes. And there it is strictly controlled by the state, unlike in our country.
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