When the Healing Stops: Facing a World Without Doctors or Medicine
Of all of the misuses of antibiotics on the part of patients and doctors, they pale in comparison to the abuse of antibiotics on the part of farmers and ranchers. Big Agribusiness is by far the greatest consumer of antibiotics in the United States. Currently they are using over 70 percent of all antibiotics to feed their livestock. This misuse of antibiotics to protect their livestock is insane, and leading to antibiotic resistance on a huge scale, pouring these resistant bugs into contaminated waterways and sending out contaminated meat to consumers nationwide.
