The Trouble with Antibiotics

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🗓️ 8 June 2015

⏱️ 40 minutes

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FRONTLINE investigates the widespread use of antibiotics in food animals and whether it is fueling the growing crisis of antibiotic resistance in people. (Original Upload Date: 11/18/2014)

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0:00.0	This is an audio cast of the Frontline segment,
0:02.6	The Trouble with Antibiotics, broadcast October 14th on PBS.
0:07.8	The correspondent is David Hoffman.
0:09.8	Music
0:26.4	Tonight on Frontline, The Trouble with Antibiotics.
0:29.6	We're using 30 million pounds of antibiotics each year to raise our animals.
0:33.4	After decades of giving antibiotics to the farm animals we eat,
0:37.0	the problem of antibiotic resistance in human beings has gone up substantially.
0:41.3	Is there a connection? A lot of studies showed food safety benefits in using these drugs.
0:46.5	There's mounting evidence that we really do have a problem.
0:49.8	There's no evidence that that is the case.
1:00.2	Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.
1:06.1	Thank you. And by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1:10.0	Major support for Frontline is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
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1:39.6	and by the Frontline Journalism Fund with major support from John and Joanne Higgler.
1:50.8	The
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