The article is a bit wonky. The FDA banned the use of human antibiotics for any other purpose than treating disease in 2017. You can’t get away with not using

The article is a bit wonky. The FDA banned the use of human antibiotics for any other purpose than treating disease in 2017. You can’t get away with not using antibiotics in livestock any more than you can do away with them in humans. And using non-human approved antibiotics on livestock won’t increase resistance because they aren’t the same drugs. And as for concerns about antibiotics in meat, there is a required “wash out” period when animals are treated. Exposure to humans consuming meat is minuscule. And meat is routinely tested on a random basis. Not to say reducing antibiotic use isn’t an important goal, but the article just brushes off the 42% reduction in use in 2017. Great progress has been made.