Snipped from ScientificAmerican.com.

It seems as though the government, although really slow, is catching on that corporations are not going to choose to do the right thing when the wrong thing is much more profitable. The FDA is currently putting forth a bill that will restrict the amount of antibiotics given to livestock. Hopefully, this will help slow down the rapid increase in antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Here is a small portion of the article:

More than 50 years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the addition of antibiotics to livestock feed to reduce disease that can occur from dense living conditions and high-protein diets. Yesterday, the FDA announced its aim to withdraw that approval and stop all non-therapeutic germ-fighting in chickens, pigs and cows.

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