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by legulere 3835 days ago
They don't even need as much antibiotics in today's extreme farms. It's just that you earn more money if you give the animals antibiotics: You don't have to monitor them and then give them antibiotics and they will even grow faster.

In Europe the rules are similar yet the antibiotics use varies drastically: http://i.imgur.com/9ybmhwE.jpg