CALPIRG: What to know about “Nightmare Bacteria”

Drug-resistent, aka "nightmare", bacteria have developed resistance to some of our strongest antibiotics, making them difficult or impossible to treat. One of the leading causes of antibiotic-resistent bacteria is the overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture. A staggering two-thirds of all antibiotics useful in human medicine in the U.S. are used on livestock and poultry -- most of whom aren't even sick. The more we use these antibiotics on a massive scale, the more we're unnecessarily exposing bacteria to them, giving those bacteria more and more chances to develop resistance. We need to stop the overuse of antibiotics in factory farms and only use these powerful, lifesaving drugs when we actually need them. LINK