Photo via MediaSpan Some 100,000 people die every year in the United States as a result of infections caused by bacteria known as ‘super bugs’, which have developed a resistance to antibiotics due to their overuse in the livestock industry . Anyone familiar with factory farming and the fast food industry knows that these antibiotics are pumped into animal feed to make them grow larger and faster unnaturally, and that the livestock grow sickly and dependent on them. The FDA has long sought to combat… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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FDA Moves to Slash Antibiotic Use in Agriculture
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