50,000 people die annually, in just the US and UK, from resistance to antibiotics.

To a large extent, this is due to factory farms that keep animals in crowded conditions and give them all antibiotics to avoid the diseases that would result. They are killing us.

The UK has launched a program to reduce or eliminate indiscriminate antibiotic use in farm animals. Finally, political will to confront the issue.

As new antibiotics are developed, it should be absolutely forbidden to use them in animals.