Antibiotic Use in Livestock to Grow, Raising Resistance Concerns

When people rise out of poverty, experts say, the first thing they want to do is eat better. For most people, that means meat. In the last half century, rising global prosperity in Asia alone means people there are eating nearly four times as much meat, milk and dairy as before. To satisfy that demand, farms have become much more concentrated, packing lots of livestock into smaller spaces. “As the animals are crowded together, often times the easiest way to deal with some of the...

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