More Good News From the Cattle Industry

Something else that should not surprise us. Antibiotics are overused because of our need to turn every single industry into a gigantic monster to ‘lower costs’.
Read it and weep.

Thanks to the overprescription of antibiotics in medical settings and the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in concentrated animal feeding operations (or CAFOs), we’ve aided the emergence of ‘superbugs’ — or drug resistance microorganisms. Antibiotic resistance (AR) has led to the deaths of 70,000 Americans a year.

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