Blog 13

   Antibiotics were meant to be used to inject humans to kill bacteria not into farm animals but that all change, Farmers before would take care of alot of manual labor, farmers would have to properly feed and raise their livestock until they hit a certain age where the animals would be ready to be killed in order to cut the meat and properly seal the meat that was going to be sold.  But that all change, during the first half of the last century, synthetic fertilizers were affordably manufactured and tractors were quickly replacing manual labor.Corporations started taking over family owned farms and putting together their warehouse where they would keep farm animals and raised at a very rapid rate. These corporations would use Antibiotics and inject the farm animals in order to make them grow quicker, fatten them up, and be sold for profit. Antibiotics have been used since 1946 and have steadily been putting hard working farmers out of business. I believe this wrong and in human using Antibiotics to make farm animals grow faster in order to be sold for a profit and not caring for the animals and the people that eat them. These farm animals "live in close confinement, often standing or laying in their own filth, and under constant stress that inhibits their immune systems and makes them more prone to infection. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, as much as 70 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States is fed to healthy farm animals". It has been estimated that at least 18,000 Americans die every year from drug-resistant infections. Today there are a few farmers that do not use antibiotics at all, in large part because they don't have to compensate for unhealthy conditions. Federal standards prohibit antibiotic use in animals whose meat will be certified organic. In the Eat Well Guide, farms where antibiotics are never given to animals carry the label."no antibiotic use," while those where antibiotics are only used to treat a sick animal carry the label "no routine antibiotic use."