Antibiotics Off The Menu
By Sarath Wijesinghe –March 15, 2016
Sarath Wijesinghe
World Consumer Rights Day 2016
World population is heading for a disaster due to excessive use of antibiotics. Unless preventive measures – though difficult – steps are taken immediately to contain the worldwide man made epidemic world is facing the danger of reaching a post antibiotic era soon . 50% of the antibiotics manufactured globally is mainly used in agritcultire, and human food chain entering the human body in some way via food giants in the food chain threatening to develop resistance for antibiotics even for a minor ailment as in the case of HIV. There is a possibility this proportion is likely to reach 75% in the year 2050.Antibiotics are substances used to kill microorganisms or to stop them from growing most which are necessary for the natural growth of agritcultire l products.
Death attributed to antibiotic resistance by 2050 is shown by researchers are alarmingly high as follows. (Asia 4,730000 Europe, 390000 North America, 317000 Latin America, 392000 Africa 4150000 and Oceanid 22000.) World Consumer Federation has chosen this topic as the theme of the year 2016, considering the impending danger of the process to avoid a post antibiotic era for the modern world. Due to the greed and the selfishness of the human being, the situation appears to be worsening with no signs of checks and balances. Destruction of the environment, preparation of adulterated food, manufacture of drugs of inferred quality, sheer disregard of the side effects of inferior drugs in the world -especially in the developing world market, spread of drug menace worldwide, use of poisonous fertilizer and contamination of water sale of junk food in large scale are some of the main factors catalysing the destruction process of the human race. Sri Lanka is an easy pray for the rough wave of the menace reaching us at a terrific speed. Drug is a mafia which is considered the most lucrative business in the globe. It is difficult to seek justice from a mafia until and unless the states and organizations work together against these powerful groups. It is time for a UN convention on this arena.
