Change farming and save our antibiotics | Cóilin Nunan | TEDxExeter

Imagine a global health crisis which causes more deaths than cancer. That’s the future we face unless we take action now to stop the rise of antibiotic resistance. Drawing on decades of academic research, Cóilín Nunan shares the action we need to take now to save our antibiotics.
Cóilín Nunan is the scientific adviser to the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, an alliance of health, medical, environmental and animal-welfare groups working to stop the overuse of antibiotics in livestock farming. He has co-authored numerous reports on antibiotic resistance and antibiotic residues that highlight the human health impact of excessive antibiotic use in intensive livestock farming. This work aims to encourage a move to more responsible use of antibiotics in farming, through better regulation and improvements in production systems, which would also improve animal health and welfare.
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Film & Livestream - First Sight Media @firstsightmedia - firstsightmedia.co.uk/ Cóilín Nunan is the scientific adviser to the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, an alliance of health, medical, environmental and animal-welfare groups working to stop the overuse of antibiotics in livestock farming. He has co-authored numerous reports on antibiotic resistance and antibiotic residues that highlight the human health impact of excessive antibiotic use in intensive livestock farming. This work aims to encourage a move to more responsible use of antibiotics in farming, through better regulation and improvements in production systems, which would also improve animal health and welfare. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@adamdodda3751]

Crazy to watch this as part of my research topic in medical school, and this was hosted 5 minutes from my house. Incredible.

[@November8888]

Very well explained. I hope it gains more views.

[@sisuvegan6795]

“So what can we do about this?” STOP EATING ANIMALS!

[@qwertyu8832]

SISU Vegan mmmmmmm, nah!

[@kenyumbagra5835]

Nope, regulations are a better solution.

[@julienadiadhara]

Now we here 2020 global pandemic..

[@nicholassimmons9706]

This pandemic is a virus; which is not affected by anti-biotics. Therefore it's existence probably has very little to do with anti-biotic resistance, aside from if the virus spread and passed to humans through intensively farmed animals fed anti-biotics (which has not been established). Still not a very good omen for our preparedness for health crises though.

[@alexbert486]

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