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If this is a novel antibiotic with any therapeutic potential, please let's outlaw feeding it to cattle by the ton.


Pretty much exactly what I was going to post. Prophylactic use of antibiotics in hogs/whatever is stupidity in a class of its' own, selectively breeding organisms on an industrial scale for resistance to the drugs we might want to use to keep us alive.




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