AfricaAPN

World over there’s increasingly high demand for food as human population soars. Man has as a result developed the attitude that regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for food and profit.
Factory farming has employed technological shortcuts such as drugs, hormones and other chemicals to maximize production. Under these conditions, virulent pathogens that are resistant to anti-biotics are emerging.
These new ‘supergerms’ whose evolution is traceable directly to the overuse of antibiotics in factory farming, have the potential to cause yet unknown human suffering and death.
In Kenya for example, eyebrows are already rising over the fast maturity of urban children compared to their age mates in the rural settings. Fingers are pointing at the diet of chicken, beef and pork products supplied in urban centers by factory farmers.
Meanwhile, the agribusiness industry, rather than advising consumers to curtail their intake of such products, has devised extreme measures of overcooking, antibiotics etc to help consumers circumvent the hazards of their products and maintain their gross over consumption.