Argumentative Essay On Antibiotics

Today’s people are so used to the idea that any antibiotics can cure just about any infections. And truly, the development of antibiotics is well thought out among the most important rise of modern science and antibiotics has saved millions of lives. However, antibiotic is becoming a rising threat to the human health and is happening worldwide. What is antibiotics? — a chemical produced by fungi and bacteria, that inhibits with the biochemistry of bacterium fungi. Antibiotics many would say is a miracle drug, helping people to extend their life spans by altering the result of the bacterial infection. In the 1920s’ researchers speculated that the average populations life span age to be only 56 years old, now this number has increased significantly

Antibiotic resistant bacteria have become a huge problem; because it is becoming more and more “smart” resulting the bacterium to become used to the medication. Antibiotics kill bacteria causing the illness and unfortunately as well killing off good bacteria that protects the body from infections. This alone is a problem because now the drug resistant bacteria can spread itself by a process called conjugation when a bacterium transfers genetic material from one bacteria to another. The drug resistant has now allowed the opportunity to multiply “grow” and take

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are being given to animals to make them growth and to avoid diseases. So, every single time people purchase meat at groceries they are potentially exposing themselves to drug resistant bacteria. One very smart decision that people could make to interrupt this process is by choosing antibiotic-free meats, which upon doing research they are available in many groceries stores and restaurants than ever before. Because the food we eat is a one factor to how people are getting drug resistance bacteria. Health professionals are advising people to avoid meats from factory farms that depend on antibiotics to make up for cramped, unsanitary conditions. A practice that can lead to antibiotic resistance. For example, some popular factory farms are “Foster Farms chickens raised this way carried multidrug-resistant Salmonella that sickened 574 people last year.” (Krans 2014). The water and fertilizer that agricultural fields use for the many crops is containing animal feces and drug resistant bacteria. People are eating these crops and are taking even more bacteria that can transform into a drug fighting beast. This bacterium remains inside of our guts, later to mutate into something that no doctor wants to come across with while trying to treat a