Farm Animals Get 80 Percent of Antibiotics Sold in U.S.

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Here's another fun fact re the OP. I can buy a tetanus toxoid injection for any of my critters for around $15. But not too long ago a friend stepped on a rusty nail in a horse pasture. It had been over a decade since her last tetanus shot. So she went into the ER (of course it happened on a Friday evening) to make sure and they told her that she had a choice of risking coming down with tetanus because there was a 48 hour window of time to get the shot. So if she waited until Monday when her clinic could give her one for around $80, she might have come down with tetanus (and perhaps died), or she could get a shot there at the ER clinic. So she opted to live.

Long story short she was charged $1,600 +/- for being made to sit in the ER for about four hours waiting, all to be let into a room where a PA came in and injected her with what my animals get for $15. The outrageous charge for the same crap they put in my livestock's $15 shot sent her credit into peril. She was one of the 100s of millions of working poor.

 

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People are going to really be shaking their heads when or if there are only a few powerful antibiotics left that are effective.

 

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Doctors are quick to withhold antibiotics for people with just a cold, but nobody seems to care that the precious gift of antibiotics is being squandered on cattle.

Thank goodness I rarely eat meat.