The Overuse of Antibiotics in Livestock Feed Is Killing Us
Big Ag and Big Pharma. Agribusiness, it seems, cannot keep up its unsustainable feedlot system of raising thousands of animals in confinement, with poor sanitation and unhealthy diets, if it the animals weren't being pumped full of copious amounts of antibiotics. "It seems scarcely believable that these precious medications could be fed by the ton to chickens and pigs," said the bill's background text.