Meat that was sold in the Aldi and Lidl discount stores is currently the subject of criticism.
Tests show worrying results.
Kassel - Meat from discounters like Lidl * or Aldi * has not had the best reputation for years.
Keeping conditions for animals are discussed again and again, but health risks for humans are also discussed.
Now again worrying details have emerged.
Deutsche Umwelthilfe analyzed numerous meat products from discounters in the study.
The result: germs that are resistant to antibiotics were discovered in more than every fourth sample, especially from turkey meat.
For the tests, turkey meat was purchased in a total of 31 Aldi and Lidl branches in Germany.
In Lidl meat, the proportion of antibiotic-resistant germs was around a third, in Aldi meat around a quarter.
It was meat from husbandry class two, also known as “stable housing plus”.
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The DUH therefore warns again of the dangerous consequences of factory farming and the associated use of antibiotics in industry.
Above all, the massive use of drugs creates a resistance to it in the animal's organism.
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At Aldi and Lidl: Numerous meat products contain antibiotic-resistant germs (symbol image).
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This can ultimately have consequences for people who eat the meat, in this case turkeys.
People can also develop resistance to antibiotics in this way: The association warns that more than 670,000 people become infected with antibiotic-resistant pathogens every year.
According to the DUH, around 245,000 infections can be traced back to factory farming.
The warning from Deutsche Umwelthilfe coincides with the recommendation of the World Health Organization.
The WHO emphasizes that antibiotics should not be used in the meat industry.
The fact that it can still be used in Germany, which can be traced back to the legislation of the European Union, is a source of criticism from the DUH.
“Factory-farmed poultry are pumped full of antibiotics, and turkey fattening is even a considerable part of reserve antibiotics.
This is particularly dramatic, since resistant pathogens develop here, against which we may no longer have any drugs available. "
Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Federal Managing Director of Deutsche Umwelthilfe
The World Medical Association also sees it this way: "The EU threatens to miss two great opportunities: Firstly, to save human lives by preventing further antibiotic resistance and, secondly, to improve animal welfare and the welfare of farm animals," says CEO Frank Ulrich Montgomery. The fault lies in the system: For example, some of these antibiotics are used to compensate for incorrect and inappropriate animal husbandry, it is said.
The discounters Aldi and Lidl have already announced that they will only sell the three and four husbandry forms from 2030.
However, the DUH does not go far enough: “It must not be that you are allowed to sell people meat with multiple resistant germs for nine years.
We demand an immediate exit from husbandry levels 1 and 2, ”says Reinhild, Benning, agricultural expert at Deutsche Umwelthilfe.
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Katharina Schaufler, who carried out the tests for the DUH, says: “Our laboratory results show that routine mass medication is not without consequences.
Turkey meat with exposure to multi-resistant pathogens endangers the health of consumers. ”Schaufler is researching this topic at the University of Greifswald.
In addition to DUH, Greenpeace has already carried out similar tests at Aldi and Lidl - with similar results. * (Tu)
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