The Bug Stops Here: “Bacterial scourges that plagued humanity are coming back, and our

food is partly to blame. Few people would realise that a lot of the food we eat – chicken, pork and

even some beef – comes from animals that have been pumped full of

antibiotics for most of their lives. Modern animal farming relies on repeated

and large-scale use of antibiotics as growth promoters. And yet, there is little

evidence they have any beneficial effect.

In fact, the evidence is mounting that the practice actually breeds bacteria

harmful to humans, and such wholesale use of antibiotics increases

bacteria’s resistance against them. Thus creating a nightmare scenario for

doctors: people with serious infections that don’t respond to antibiotics.”