Antibiotics Overuse in Animal Agriculture: A Call to Action for Health Care Providers

The authors focus on the overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture and evidence this is resulting in increased antibiotic resistance in organisms. It states antibiotics are given to animals in their feed to prevent infections and marginally improve animal growth. It mentions a number of nations have restricted the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture and reports the U.S. Congress has repeatedly stalled a bill to phase out the use of eight medically-important antibiotics in animal feed.