In the wind - Germs and Antibiotics!

Antibiotics have been used in agriculture as a way to make livestock larger and healthier; even though modern science has shown that simply providing a cleaner environment achieves the same thing.

Although the trends are towards hormone and antibiotic free meats, their use is still widespread.

Now, some researchers have sampled air downwind from large-scale beef cattle feed yards. They not only found detectable levels of antibiotics, but also bacteria with medicine resistant genes!

With all the evidence pointing towards the lack of necessity of these methods it is sad that we cannot stop this practice. As consumers we need to only purchase antibiotic free meats and force the issue in that way!