When Social Security is taxable at all, you have to pay taxes on at least 50 percent of your benefits. As your income increases the percentage can reach a maximum of 85 percent of your annual benefit amount. This maximum percentage applies when your income reaches $34,000 if you file as single.
While some of that 80% is used to treat animal illnesses, the majority (90%) is administered through the animalsâ water or feed to assist the animalsâ growth and subsequent weight gain and to also preventively help the livestock survive the harsh farm and living conditions through antibiotic treatment.
Livestock that aren't raised in confinement rarely need antibiotics, but factory farming has grown utterly dependent on the use of the drugs. Representatives of the modern meat industry argue that if the animals were not routinely fed antibiotics, rates of illness might increase and more antibiotics would be needed to treat the sick animals.