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explaining the 17 goal for 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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Let's explain, how do the medicines animals receive affect human health?
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Most of the animals we eat are given antibiotics to increase food production.
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When we eat, these animals were also taking in the harmful chemicals used to fatten the animals up.
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It becomes a public health issue when antibiotics that are important for human health are giving to animals on a massive scale.
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This act encourages the growth of drug resistant bacteria that can lead to diseases being progressively harder to treat.
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Yeah, however, there is a solution to this issue.
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Animals like humans, need antibiotics to help their bodies fight or prevent certain types of infections.
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It is the overuse of these antibiotics that causes the animals to gain weight and fills them with the chemicals that are harmful for us to ingest.
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The FDA has taken note of this and implemented a policy that regulates how much medicine animals receive and a process to ensure that they're monitored by veterinarians.
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Making sure you buy your meat from your local deli or farmers market is a great way to avoid eating animals that have been fattened up for consumption.
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Switching to a vegetarian or vegan diet can also ensure that your body doesn't fall harm from the drugs being pumped into livestock.
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Thes healthy alternatives not only affect your body, but the environment as well.
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Raising animals for food creates more greenhouse gas emissions than cars and planes 30% of the Earth's landmasses dedicated to raising animals for food.
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This includes the land used for grazing and growing feed crops.
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Changing your eating habits can help to save all the land that we currently use for cattle pastures, which consists of 80% of the Amazon.
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Together, we can all do our part to make sure our food is healthy and the animals we get it from or to.