Antibiotics are still used in massive quantities in the US solely to promote growth and also to allow animals to be confined in increasingly smaller and less hy

Antibiotics are still used in massive quantities in the US solely to promote growth and also to allow animals to be confined in increasingly smaller and less hygienic environments and to compensate for increasingly dirtier and more dangerous slaughterhouse conditions. None of this is necessary. From what I understand this is less the case in the EU. 80% of the antibiotics used in the US are given to animals, not people: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/are-antibiotics-turning-livestock-superbug-factories http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/09/are-antibiotics-turni...