WASHINGTON --- President Barack Obama took long-awaited action Thursday in response to rising concerns over antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But public health experts say he failed to move decisively against a key driver of this resistance: the widespread, unnecessary use of antibiotics on industrial farms. Meanwhile, a new wave of action on the
Obama Action On Antibiotic Resistance Decried As Soft On Agricultural Use
Some 80 percent of antibiotics sold in the U.S. are for agricultural use, mostly given at low doses to animals that are not ill — the perfect conditions for building up antibiotic resistance among bacteria. Action to end this practice is unfolding most aggressively at the city level.