> Antibiotics in farming is used in order to keep animals in a environment where if it wasn't for the antibiotics they would get sick. I'm not sure that is ent

> Antibiotics in farming is used in order to keep animals in a environment where if it wasn't for the antibiotics they would get sick. I'm not sure that is entirely accurate. Prophylactic treatment to avoid diseases is one reason for antibiotic usage, but more growth promotion is a much bigger factor. The main reason that cattle are fed antibiotics is that a low dose of antibiotics makes them grow faster. This use has been outlawed in the EU, but according to [1] antibiotic use for other reasons has increased since then, so it sounds like farmers only claim to use antibiotics against diseases, when they are actually only interested in the growth advantages. [1]: https://fstjournal.org/features/antibiotics-farming https://fstjournal.org/features/antibiotics-farming