Biotin-resistant (vitamin-resistant) microbes

Biotin is an emerging therapy for the treatment of secondary progressive MS.
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Biotin-resistant (vitamin-resistant) microbes

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Probably I won't be heard because this is just a deaf dead-end email address.

But you are more right than you can imagine. It is not just antibiotics we must be afraid of being used in feedstock. If we start using antivirals some factory farmer may make another undeserved dollar at a high cost to us all.

The important difference between humans and bacteria for purposes of species evolution is expected life span. That means bacteria can evolve much much faster than we can. So we are at a big disadvantage when it comes to evolving our species. Also, our feedstock is at approximately the same relative disadvantage.

The danger is much much higher than most people think. The human species is at a definite risk from both antibiotic and antiviral resistant drugs. These microscopic creatures can not only evolve resistance to our chemical defenses but quickly spread to wipe out an entire species of our food animals. Plus they can easily spread between mammalian and avian species.

Use by farmers cause super virulent versions of diseases we haven't even conquered yet. For instance recent testing shows a Vitamin may be the key to fighting MS. But the primary uses of the substance biotin (the Vitamin) cause it to be used in large quantities for cosmetic and veterinary purposes. The use of this drug is unlimited in factory farms. But if MS is caused by some unknown microbe, we may have Vitamin-resistant species before we can have a chance to use it to cure MS. MS may become incurable not in the past but in the near future. The same may be true of other diseases. We may never catch up with the farmers long enough to cure them.

In fact use of antimicrobial substances may even cause many gut-borne diseases such as MS.

We should be banning a lot more than just antibiotics in farming.

Because we raise other species for food, we must be ultra careful how we save them from natural disease, lest we wipe out our own species.

-Chris Sullivan, MS sufferer


On 5/10/2015 2:54 AM, Alex Wilks - Avaaz wrote:
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> Cruel factory farms are pumping healthy animals full of antibiotics and creating dangerous drug-resistant superbugs that can kill us. But if we come together fast, we can get the EU to pass a law to protect animals and our health -- then we'll take this global. Sign now:
> SIGN THE PETITION
> Dear friends,
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> Cruel factory farms are pumping healthy animals full of antibiotics so that they can produce more meat, faster and cheaper. This insane cruelty is also creating drug-resistant superbugs that can kill us!
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> Several European countries have already drastically cut use of antibiotics, and now EU ministers are negotiating laws to do so across the continent.
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> Reducing cruelty to animals while saving human lives is such a no-brainer that even McDonald’s said it'll stop selling chicken reared with some antibiotics in the US. But the farm and pharma lobby is out in full force to stop the new EU laws.
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> Ministers from across the EU meet tomorrow, and many have yet to make up their minds. Let’s build a million-strong call to outlaw the cruel and deadly abuse of antibiotics in factory farms, and deliver it to each of them. Once we win in Europe, we’ll take this around the world. Sign now, then share with everyone:
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> https://secure.avaaz.org/en/antibiotics ... bb&v=58059
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> The World Health Organisation has issued stark warnings that superbugs may make antibiotics useless in combating infectious diseases like tuberculosis or pneumonia. Much of modern medicine depends on antibiotics, including cancer treatments, and surgery and a major report estimates that 10 million more people will die per year by 2050 if we don't save antibiotics.
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> Constant low doses of antibiotics breed superbugs. And though human misuse also contributes to this growing resistance, little is being done to reduce the massive amount of antibiotics given to livestock -- two thirds of the volume of antibiotics in the EU and US!
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> Denmark, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands have shown it’s possible to produce meat with far less antibiotics, but with meat and bugs travelling across borders, we need to bring other countries on board.
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> Many would like to shut down dangerous factory farms once and for all. These new EU laws will be a massive step towards improving animal welfare, and improving human health. But experts say the Ministers aren't feeling any public pressure to act -- we can change that right now.
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> Sign the petition and spread the word -- once we reach one million signers, Avaaz will run opinion polls, and work with champion countries to bring our petition right into the room before the EU votes:
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> https://secure.avaaz.org/en/antibiotics ... bb&v=58059
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> Millions of Avaaz members have helped protect whales, factory farm chicks, and other animals. Now let’s come together again to protect the cornerstone of modern medicine and win this for animals and for all of us.
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> With hope,
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> Alex, Allison, Laila, Alice, Antonia, Alaphia, Ricken and the rest of the Avaaz team
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> MORE INFORMATION
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> Food, farming and antibiotics: a health challenge for business (The Guardian)
> http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable- ... e-business
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> How Cheap Meat Practices Beef Up Superbugs Like MRSA (ABC News)
> http://abcnews.go.com/Health/moms-docto ... d=16352562
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> Why antibiotic resistance must be tackled at the farm, too (EurActiv)
> http://www.euractiv.com/sections/health ... d-farm-too...
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> Antibiotic resistance now 'global threat', WHO warns (BBC)
> http://www.bbc.com/news/health-27204988
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> KFC faces pressure after McDonald's says no antibiotics in chicken (Reuters)
> http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/ ... B720150312
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> Antibiotics - Antimicrobial Resistance Briefing (CIWF)
> http://www.ciwf.org.uk/research/human-h ... esistance/
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> Avaaz.org is a 41-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 18 countries on 6 continents and operates in 17 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
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