According to the World Health Organization, more antibiotics are fed to farm animals to prevent disease and fatten them faster than are used to treat sick people.

This can foster the growth of antibiotic-resistant superbugs that can then get transmitted to humans.

As the UK's chief medical officer once put it,

every inappropriate or unnecessary use in animals or agriculture is potentially signing a death warrant for a future patient.

So what are they? Miracle drugs or pig food?

Here's how Dr. Greger framed the issue in a debate he had with industry representatives,

including from the National Pork Producers Council.

To ask if there's a question between human drug resistance and livestock antibiotics is like asking if there's human-induced climate change or if there's a link between smoking and lung camps.

There are a few dissenting industry scientists on one side, but then basically every other scientist on the other.

Both opposing camps have scientists on their side,

but only one really has science on their side.

And one could just look at who's on the sides of this debate.

In one corner, you have the World Health Organization,

the American Medical Association,

the American Academy of PDF,

it's American Public Health Association,

another 100 medical and public health

organizations in the country. On the other side, you have the National Turkey Federation,

the National Chicken Counts, the American, the sheep industry association, national pork producers,

it could not be more starving.

Previously, Dr. Greger discussed how feeding millions of pounds of antibiotics to cows, pigs, and chickens every year

is dangerous because it fosters antibiotic resistance.

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