(03-04-2015, 04:38 PM)Catherine Wrote: However if we are hit with an epidemic of an antibiotic resistant disease we all could be in danger.Sadly, yes. The antibiotic-resistant bacteria do not stop to enquire, "Are you a vegetarian or vegan?" For example, any person going into a hospital is at risk, as a sick, weak person - vegetarian or not - is open to attack by the resistant strains commonly found there (just because a hospital is naturally full of sick people!). My dear father died in hospital, with MRSA a contributory factor.
If the whole world were to renounce meat eating, factory farming would cease, and the misuse of antibiotics with it. However, it seems that humankind is not ready for that - so we will have to watch the chickens come home to roost, as far as antibiotics are concerned.
