Chicken makes one of the most popular dishes in India. However, one might have to think twice before eating it now. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, an independent, non-profit media organization, has found in a study that hundreds of tonnes of Colistin – an antibiotic of last resort – ship to India for the routine treatment of chickens by administering it in their feed.
Chickens that have been bred in India and raise have been fed or dosed with some of the strongest antibiotics known to medicine that can have repercussions on human health, reported News 18. The report said that, “Indian poultry farming is creating global superbugs”. Colisti, an antibiotic, is given to the chickens to protect them against diseases or to make them gain weight faster so more can be grown each year at greater profit. It should only be used on very sick patients.