Overuse of antibiotics for meat and dairy farming is helping drive the rise of antibiotic resistant superbugs worldwide, which could cause up to 10 million deaths a year by 2050.
These vital medicines are a centerpiece of industrial animal farming, enabling intensive, crowded conditions that can breed disease. This system has created the boom in meat and dairy production at the heart of agriculture’s ballooning greenhouse gas emissions.
In this series, DeSmog explores why governments around the world are failing to address industrial agriculture’s reliance on antibiotics amid growing antimicrobial resistance. We scrutinize the role of the meat, dairy and pharmaceutical sectors in resisting change in the US, the UK and across the EU.
