WHO To Farmers: Stop Giving Your Animals So Many Antibiotics
The World Health Organization is calling for strict limits on antibiotic use in animals raised for food. The guidelines could push many countries, including the U.S., to restrict drug use on farms.
The World Health Organization, worried about an increasing epidemic of drug-resistant infections, has thrown its considerable weight behind the campaign to cut the use of antibiotics in pigs, chickens and cattle that are raised for their meat. The WHO is on governments to follow the example of Denmark and the Netherlands, which have banned the use of these drugs to
