{"id":4361,"date":"2015-07-11T07:07:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T11:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2015-07-11T07:07:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T11:07:23","slug":"a-world-without-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/a-world-without-antibiotics\/","title":{"rendered":"A world without antibiotics&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.I switched dentists the other day and, for the first time in more than 30 years, the hygienist presented a cup with four little pills&#8230;.yes, routine, preventive, antibiotic therapy.\u00a0 The explanation was that I&#8217;d undergone hip surgery in 1980 and there was a danger of infection when she cleaned my teeth.\u00a0 Never mind\u00a0 that I had somehow survived almost four decades of dental work, including extractions, crowns and the like, without antibiotics&#8230;the young woman and the older dentist were insistent.<\/p>\n<p>So I did what any obedient subject of modern medicine would do:\u00a0 I palmed the pills and threw them away later.\u00a0 But I wonder, as with red meat and red wine, when the average medical man is going to catch up with recent research.\u00a0 Or is it already too late?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurepundit.com\/archives\/009835.html\">http:\/\/www.futurepundit.com\/archives\/009835.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen that number for some time:\u00a0 80% of the antibiotics are used in agriculture&#8230;a routine part of the diet for most animals (including almost all the ones you eat in restaurants and from supermarkets) to keep them alive until they&#8217;re slaughtered.\u00a0 That&#8217;s because they&#8217;re raised is such deplorable conditions they&#8217;d die ahead of schedule otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>We also understand that we&#8217;ve run out of money to develop any new, more powerful antibiotics so we&#8217;re approaching the end of the line.\u00a0 Literally.\u00a0 No need to worry about global warming.<\/p>\n<p>I would add the usual recommendations about eating Thistle Hill beef and pork&#8212;never any antibiotics, hormones, etc&#8212;but the most recent steers we harvested three days ago were sold out in 20 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.I switched dentists the other day and, for the first time in more than 30 years, the hygienist presented a cup with four little pills&#8230;.yes, routine, preventive, antibiotic therapy.\u00a0 The explanation was that I&#8217;d undergone hip surgery in 1980 and there was a danger of infection when she cleaned my teeth.\u00a0 Never mind\u00a0 that I had somehow survived almost four decades of dental work, including extractions, crowns and the like, without antibiotics&#8230;the young woman and the older dentist were insistent. So I did what any obedient subject of modern medicine would do:\u00a0 I palmed the pills and threw them away later.\u00a0 But I wonder, as with red meat and red wine, when the average medical man is going to catch up with recent research.\u00a0 Or is it already too late? http:\/\/www.futurepundit.com\/archives\/009835.html We&#8217;ve seen that number for some time:\u00a0 80% of the antibiotics are used in agriculture&#8230;a routine part of the diet for most animals (including almost all the ones you eat in restaurants and from supermarkets) to keep them alive until they&#8217;re slaughtered.\u00a0 That&#8217;s because they&#8217;re raised is such deplorable conditions they&#8217;d die ahead of schedule otherwise. We also understand that we&#8217;ve run out of money to develop any new, more powerful antibiotics so we&#8217;re approaching the end of the line.\u00a0 Literally.\u00a0 No need to worry about global warming. I would add the usual recommendations about eating Thistle Hill beef and pork&#8212;never any antibiotics, hormones, etc&#8212;but the most recent steers we harvested three days ago were sold out in 20 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4363,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/4363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}