Yeah but how else can we cram hundreds of animals into a small place while keeping them in extremely unhygienic conditions in order to maximise profit?
You mean to tell me living knee deep in your neighbor’s shit is unhygienic? Wild.
This also ends up leading to all kinds of zoonetic diseases in general (even outside of just antibiotic-resistant ones)
A number of intensive animal production methods have been implicated in zoonotic disease emergence in the literature (Table 1). The intensification of animal agriculture through confinement and industrialization has directly led to the emergence of viruses including Nipah and H5N1 influenza (“swine flu”) (18) and antibiotic-resistant infectious bacteria including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli (19, 20).
Can we just become vegetarians and vegan already.
I wish it was more common
bacteoiphage treatments for super resistant bacteria will become standard in the coming decades.
There are quite a few harmful antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains already, so we can’t solely rely on the prospect of a potential new treatment.
unless cell cultured meats come in a big way or there is a drastic reduction for demand of meat, overuse of antibiotics in the meat industry will continue which will just keep driving antibiotic resistance in bacteria even further. I don’t really have faith in governments to regulate this (doing so would basically kill factory farming) so relying on new treatments is all I can suggest.
We could try reducing our meat consumption.
