the U.S. still uses antibiotics en masses in food animals, severely increasing the chance of antibiotic-resistant strains jumping to humans. antibiotic-resistant TB killed someone I was very close to in 2002. www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...
For years, expert bodies like the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been warning that most emerging infectious diseases come from animals and that our industrialized farming practices are ratcheting up the risk.
