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I misunderstand your last sentence: what good is an antibiotic not useful on animals, given that we are animals?
by jjtheblunt 4y ago
I misunderstand your last sentence: what good is an antibiotic not useful on animals, given that we are animals?
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- jounker 4y agoNon human animals. Farmers feed massive amounts of antibiotics to their livestock. This used to increase their weight, but it’s no longer clear that this works.
- heavyset_go 4y agoFor reference, ~80% of antibiotics in the US are used on livestock, not to treat infections, but to prevent them and because pumping them full of antibiotics successfully increases animals' weights[1], as you said. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638249/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638249/