N.Y. Times on animal antibiotics in animal feed

There was a really interesting article on the use of antibiotics in animal feed in the N.Y. Times last week. Two very interesting takeaways: (1) the article highlights the flaws in FDA’s initiative to prohibit the use of antibiotic for growth promotion—as many critics noted, allowing companies to use these drugs for disease “prevention” is essentially a loophole, and (2) the market is eclipsing regulation in the context of antibiotics, as consumers increasingly demand antibiotic-free meat.

Further reading:

• Emilie Aguirre wrote about California’s stricter rules and democratic experimentalism here.
• Lisa Heinzerling wrote about the FDA’s poor record on animal antibiotics here.
• I link to some resources on the background of this issue in a 2014 blog post, here.