The Hidden Link Between Farm Antibiotics and Human Illness

The Hidden Link Between Farm Antibiotics and Human Illness

For almost seven decades, we’ve routinely fed antibiotics to the animals we eat. That’s just a few years less than we’ve taken antibiotics ourselves. And for just about as long, it’s been clear that those antibiotic doses have been creating drug-resistant bacteria that pass from meat animals to make humans sick. The first outbreaks of …