title: babies of obese mothers at high risk of brain damage stroke heart attack and asthma
text: superbugs big pharma to blame for coming death of  people annually 
  sunday october   by ethan a huff staff writer tags superbugs  antibiotics abuse  big pharma naturalnews as new guidelines set forth by the us food and drug administration fda to curb antibiotic overuse and abuse on factory farms slowly come into effect the drug industry is apparently setting its greedy sights elsewhere  towards countries where restrictions on antibiotic use are looser or simply where anything goeslivestock are the single biggest consumers of antibiotic drugs in the us  not by choice of course but because farmers have long been sold a bill of goods by big pharma when it comes to using them to bulk up their cattle more quickly and get them to market as fast as possible its a common practice that generates a lot of money in the shortterm but a whole lot of problems in the longtermthe use of antibiotics on farms is arguably the biggest contributor to antibiotic resistance among humans where drugs that used to treat deadly bugs no longer do the result is the emergence of socalled superbugs that are capable of outsmarting even the most potent antibiotics a phenomenon thats killing people by the hundreds of thousandssome of the latest reports indicate that the superbug epidemic is claiming the lives of some  people annually all around the world and if nothing is done now to stop the drug industry from continuing to poison the well so to speak then this number is expected to balloon more than fold to  million lives lost by the year according to the world health organization who there are very few countries in the world with any sort of formidable plan in place to address antibiotic resistance even with the us somewhat taking the lead with voluntary fda suggestions on the matter none of this will stop drug companies from preying on the developing world that has yet to enact any sort of restrictions on antibiotic usetheyre international companies gail hansen a veterinarian and consultant who works with drug companies governments and nonprofit organizations told bloomberg  what happens in the us does certainly make a difference but its not the only market they have antibiotic resistance kills  times more people than opiate overdoses while its become common practice for factory animal rearers to exploit antibiotics as a way to fatten their stocks more quickly and supposedly keep them healthy the use of these drugs for such purposes is disastrous for public health comparatively speaking only  people die from opiate overdoses globally which translates to  times more people dying from superbugs than from the most deadly pharmaceuticals on the marketantibiotics are also overused in the realm of human medicine with some onethird of all prescriptions according to the us centers for disease control and prevention cdc and the pew charitable trusts being completely unnecessary this translates to roughly  million prescriptions that arent even helpful either because the patients have a viral infection or dont have an infection at allthe only way anything is going to change is if big pharma is barred from selling antibiotics to farmers whose only desire is to rush their animals to market for maximum profits doctors must also be reigned in and stopped from indiscriminately handing out antibiotics whenever their patients feel any kind of ailment  and again these measures must have a global reachif some of the biggest responsible parties  namely the companies making the products  are still selling the antibiotics in other countries it just underscores that this has to be a change that happens across the entire world david wallinga a senior health official and physician at the natural resources defense council nrdc told bloomberg and the companies bear a big responsibility for that approach sources for this article include