Use Of Antibiotics In Animals Raised For Food Defies Scrutiny

Use Of Antibiotics In Animals Raised For Food Defies Scrutiny
the calf on a summer pasture
the calf on a summer pasture

The numbers released quietly by the federal government this year were alarming. A ferocious germ resistant to many types of antibiotics had increased tenfold on chicken breasts, the most commonly eaten meat on the nation's dinner tables. But instead of a learning from a broad national inquiry into a troubling trend, scientists said they were stymied by a lack of the most basic element of research: solid data.

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