ANTIBIOTICS

AND AGRICULTURE

The advocacy group Keep Antibiotics Working warns that increased use of antibiotics in agriculture is “a recipe for disaster” that is “putting the needs of the agriculture industry ahead of human health.” According to the CDC, drug-resistant infections kill 23,000 Americans each year and sicken two million. As more germs mutate, the threat is growing and the United Nations says resistant infections could claim 10 million lives globally by 2050, exceeding deaths from cancer.