Court orders FDA action on abx use on "farms"

[mama2alex]

http://www.statesman.com/life/health-medical/court-orders-fda-action-on-antibiotic-use-on-2257361.html

 

"Nearly 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are given to farm animals used in food production, according to a recent estimate by the FDA. Farmers mostly use the drugs in healthy animals to spur growth or to keep them from getting sick in crowded, unsanitary feedlot areas."

 

It would be amazing if this actually happens. I'm sure there will be enormous corporate pressure against it though.

[SSS]

Yes, hard to believe, isn't it?

[nicklemama]

What is more amazing is that pediatricians (and doctors in general) are so reluctant to give our kids abx but farm animals are the primary users of abx and then we eat it in our food. Oh, the irony.