So true. It is far too easy for farmers to get antibiotics, and once in stock they can use them whenever they choose.
Some farmers are quite responsible and only use them when an animal is sick with a bacterial infection. But as you both have said above, the trouble is that intensive (factory) farming practices are such that disease spreads like wildfire and the animals, never seeing the light of day or able to move about freely, have very low resistance. That is a powder keg, which the intensive farmers have tried to keep keep under wraps by massive overuse of antibiotics. Some farms even inject antibiotics regularly, just as a preventative measure. That is highly irresponsible and now we are beginning to suffer the consequences.
As the saying goes, the chickens are coming home to roost....
Some farmers are quite responsible and only use them when an animal is sick with a bacterial infection. But as you both have said above, the trouble is that intensive (factory) farming practices are such that disease spreads like wildfire and the animals, never seeing the light of day or able to move about freely, have very low resistance. That is a powder keg, which the intensive farmers have tried to keep keep under wraps by massive overuse of antibiotics. Some farms even inject antibiotics regularly, just as a preventative measure. That is highly irresponsible and now we are beginning to suffer the consequences.
As the saying goes, the chickens are coming home to roost....
