It’s nice to be right every once in a while. Unfortunately, I’d rather not be right about this: “MRSA appears to have originated in humans, but acquired antibiotic resistance in animals”
Yep, turns out that if 60% or so of the antibiotics in this country are used for animals (mostly in feed) that’s where you’re going to find the antibiotic-resitant bacteria.
So with the BBC, 60 Minutes, Time magazine, and a plethora of scientific and medical journals claiming that we’re in an “Antibiotic Crisis” Why are we still giving so many antibiotics of it to farm animals?
The big agri-businesses would tell you that they need the antibiotics to keep their animals healthy. The real truth is that they need them to keep their businesses profitable. Regular antibiotic use allows producers to get away with keeping their animals in unnatural and unsanitary conditions, which are more profitable.
