Tag: US Food and Drugs Agency

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 18:29 UTC

  US meats’ farming massive use of antibiotics creating more resistant bacteria

  

  The factory farming of cows, pigs, poultry and fish sucks up 29 million pounds—80%—of antibiotics sold in the United States. Many illness-causing bacteria are now resistant to most or all of the antibiotics that once killed them.