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Re:‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising ... by daxorid on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @02:33PM (#12445824)
This is not the reason antibiotics are given to livestock. A wide class of antibiotics, when delivered in subtherapeutic doses, increase feed conversion efficiency and result in larger animals for the same feed inputs.

So yes, it's about costs, but not for the reasons you cite.

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Re:‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising ... by exDM69 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @03:11PM (#12446234)
It's not the only reason but it is a reason.

But that's irrelevant, it's a cost cutting measure with harmful consequences to the society as a whole. The regulations and producer prices should be adjusted to make small to medium scale farming profitable and stop the antibiotics madness.

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