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by thedaly 909 days ago
> Same problem we've had with antibiotics.

I suspect the much more impactful driver of antibiotic resistance would be the antibiotics feed to live stock in mass.

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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-5-year-antimic...

Paragraph 2.1 of the main PDF on that page, on page 8:

> Increasing scientific evidence suggests that the clinical issues with antimicrobial resistance that we face in human medicine are primarily the result of antibiotic use in people, rather than the use of antibiotics in animals.