80% of antibiotics are being given to livestock animals:<p>&gt;The proportion of antibiotics sold in the United States each year that go to animals turns out to be not 70 percent, but rather 80 percent. Here’s CLF’s Ralph Loglisci, who got the confirmatory numbers from the FDA.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;12&#x2F;news-update-farm-animals-get-80-of-antibiotics-sold-in-us&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wired.com&#x2F;2010&#x2F;12&#x2F;news-update-farm-animals-get-80...</a><p>And they also do it because it makes the animals gain weight:<p>&gt;especially troubling is their use not to cure sick animals but to promote &quot;feed efficiency,&quot; that is, to increase the animal&#x27;s weight gain per unit of feed. These drugs are also regularly added to the feed and water of animals that are not sick in order to prevent diseases caused by overcrowded and unsanitary CAFO conditions. These nontherapeutic uses translate into relatively cheap meat prices at the grocery store.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ucsusa.org&#x2F;food_and_agriculture&#x2F;our-failing-food-system&#x2F;industrial-agriculture&#x2F;prescription-for-trouble.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ucsusa.org&#x2F;food_and_agriculture&#x2F;our-failing-food-...</a><p>I wish they&#x27;d save the antibiotics for humans so they&#x27;d be more effective. I also wonder if all the antibiotics are making humans gain weight.