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Re:Pesticides are killing the world's soils by Ovah on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @02:25AM (#27365546)
> The second is about removing subsidies to farmers that use any kind of pesticide, or regularly use antibiotics on their livestock, etc.

Anecdotally through medical school I've heard that there is evidence that antibiotic overuse in livestock, contrary to intuition, has no correlation with antibiotic resistance of human pathogens.

Re:Pesticides are killing the world's soils by mellavora on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @03:45AM (#27366042)
odd, because the literature is full of studies showing rather high correlations.

Here is a nice review article published in the Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5...

The WHO is pretty convinced of the connection https://www.who.int/news/item/07-11-2017-stop-using-antibiot...