Please stop with this fud. 80% of antibiotic production goes to the livestock industry[0] and that is where all the antibiotic resistant bacteria evolve.

>Antimicrobials are widely used for disease prevention and growth promotion in food animals. In the United States, antimicrobial use in food animals is estimated to account for ∼80% of the nation’s annual antimicrobial consumption, a significant fraction of which involves antimicrobials that are important in human medicine in the treatment of common infections and also necessary to perform medical procedures such as major surgeries, organ transplantation, and chemotherapy.

Read some of the tables in [1] (data from 2017) on how antibiotics are administered, they are shocking:

Feed : 3,432,373 Kg (62% of total production)

Water: 1,655,410 Kg (30% of total production)

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/112/18/5649

[1] PDF: https://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/AnimalDru...

Thanks for your data and citations. That's what I was trying to get at. The article needless conflated the two - which leaves readers wondering if they are personally to blame when it's clearly Big Ag.

Those who know how Big Ag acts and nonetheless buy their products are to blame.

Therefore most of us are to blame, especially considering indirect channels (food served at work/school cafeteria, many/most restaurants...).

Antibiotics are given to animals to improve their growth. I assume this is because the animal does not have to dedicate a lot of its metabolism to its immune system.