Resumen de The looming threat of factory — farm superbugs.
The article focuses on the role of antibiotic use by livestock farmers in developing drug-resistant microorganisms and the resistance of the farm lobby to allowing scientists track the threat. It comments on the spread of antibiotic resistance through microorganisms including the role of plasmids in spreading resistance to other strains of bacteria. It mentions how the U.S. meat industry instructs livestock farmers to keep outsiders away. It talks about regenerative diversified farming.
