It's illegal in Canada, but here all they've managed to do is get it out of baby food containers.

our reps about this. It is only going to get worse until no antibiotics will be effective. That is a nightmare scenario.

...there would be no need for prophylactic antibiotics.

When chickens and cattle are forced into close confinement concentrations camps, standing in and eating their own feces that mega antibiotics are needed to keep them alive.

This is one of the many reasons my Wife & I moved to The Woods in 2006
and started raising our own.
We Free Range our chickens, and avoid feed that contains antibiotics.
In 7 years, we haven't had a bird die from an infection.

For those who garden,
avoid those large piles of "Free Manure Compost".
More than likely, it contains high levels of antibiotics, steroids, and growth hormones.

I remember hearing Michael Pollan on the radio saying the feedlot industry would crash in three days without the antibiotics.

He said the manure was so full of antibiotics that it should be treated as toxic waste.

It's everywhere. All the livestock feed available at local feed stores for family raised livestock contain antibiotics and even more additives like hormones and steroids for increased growth, muscle mass, or milk yield.

Only one store will special order higher priced drug-free feed that just has basic vitamins and minerals for good health. It costs by the pallet load which gets very expensive if you're raising more than one type of farm animal with each requiring their own specific feed formula, so we started a feed co-op to get "clean" feed.

About 40yrs ago I had friends that raised Quarter Horses, and as part of the daily feed ration they gave a supplement that was a wormer and included a low level antibiotic. I guess it was supposed to help keep the horses resistant to illnesses while keeping the parasite levels down.

One of their young mares who had seemed healthy got sick and died quickly, and the vet could not figure out why. So he did a necropsy and found that there were small abscesses all throughout her body. None were enough to kill her but all together it was enough to basically poison her. The vet felt that because she was on the low dose of antibiotic for a long period of time, the mare actually had less resistance to infection, which was taking over her body.

As I said this was back in the late '70s, and I honestly didn't see a formal necropsy report, but that is what the vet told them at the time. I never forgot that and never gave any antibiotics to my horses that were not part of a necessary treatment.

I was a teenager in the 90's, and grew up on a small family farm in Minnesota.

We'd make our own livestock feed in the grinder, mixing in soybeans, corn, alfalfa, bags of supplements, etc.

My dad would buy tetracycline from the local feed store in 2-lb bags dirt cheap. One to two bags for every ton of feed we ground up. It improved the animal's growth rates, so financially it was worth it.

That's a fuck-load of tetracycline.

So, it's not just Big Ag doing this on factory farms. It's become endemic to the farming industry as a whole.

originally as the last line of defense...such as the fluoroquinolones. Then people suffer tendonpathy, depression and suicidal behaviors and all people get is denial of the side effects.

All because we have made the mainline antibiotics near useless.

vegetarian. My occasional meat eating is natural local meat. Organic preferred.