Please stop with this fud. 80% of antibiotic production goes to the livestock industry[0] and that is where all the antibiotic resistant bacteria evolve. >Anti

Please stop with this fud. 80% of antibiotic production goes to the livestock industry[0] and that is where all the antibiotic resistant bacteria evolve. >Antimicrobials are widely used for disease prevention and growth promotion in food animals. In the United States, antimicrobial use in food animals is estimated to account for ∼80% of the nation’s annual antimicrobial consumption, a significant fraction of which involves antimicrobials that are important in human medicine in the treatment of common infections and also necessary to perform medical procedures such as major surgeries, organ transplantation, and chemotherapy. Read some of the tables in [1] (data from 2017) on how antibiotics are administered, they are shocking: Feed : 3,432,373 Kg (62% of total production) Water: 1,655,410 Kg (30% of total production) [0] https://www.pnas.org/content/112/18/5649 https://www.pnas.org/content/112/18/5649 [1] PDF: https://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/AnimalDrugUserFeeActADUFA/UCM628538.pdf https://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/AnimalDru...