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by AdamN 36 days ago
They recommend treatment because the mandate is to keep the animals alive, not whether or not it's good long term for humans. Many doctors and vets though are against the mass use of antibiotics in industrial farming (literally as a prophylactic so they get the antibiotics just in case) but it's not having much of an impact it seems.
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> the mandate is to keep the animals alive

By whom?

> mass use of antibiotics in industrial farming

This is a completely different issue. No one's doing mass prophylactic treatment against this fungus, and even if we treated every single cat in the world, there are 60 times more chickens. Industrial farming is on a completely different scale.

> doctors and vets

Unless they're citing research supporting their opinion, it's as irrelevant as any other non-specialist.