The forthcoming change restricts the use of antibiotics that are commonly used to treat people, and allows the use of animal ...

where animal feeds laced with small amounts of antibiotic are provided over extended periods of rearing. Labeled as “growth promotion” and employed primarily in large, concentrated feedlots for ...

People and animals infected by resistant organisms are harder to cure. In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control estimates there are over 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections every year.

Study reveals poultry breeding companies in India struggle to prevent bacterial infections in chicks, leading to antibiotic ...

The pharmaceutical industry helped build factory farming. Now it’s muddying the debate over meat’s carbon footprint.

Chronic exposure to low doses of antibiotics is pervasive in industrial animal agriculture, the system in which more than 99 percent of animals are reared in the U.S. The Food and Drug ...

Infections affecting people – including pneumonia, tuberculosis, blood poisoning and gonorrhoea – and animals alike are becoming harder, and sometimes impossible, to treat as antibiotics ...

Extreme Farming Faster Food Seeds, Syrup and Subversion Mind your Manners The animals we eat consume more than 60% of the world’s antibiotics - but not always because they are sick. This week ...

“The reduction may reflect changes in antimicrobial use policies, including restrictions on tetracyclines and penicillins in food-producing animals. Also, vaccine protection against Salmonella species ...

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) points to a 55% drop in antibiotic use in food-producing animals since 2014. and an 83% decrease in the use of antibiotics most ...