SUPERBUGS - Industrial Farming

"How industrial farming techniques can breed superbugs" PBS NewsHour 8/9/2017

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SUMMARY:  As high-density, industrial-scale livestock farms have become fertile breeding grounds for disease, they've also become a major source of drug-resistant superbugs.  Science correspondent Miles O'Brien and economics correspondent Paul Solman team up to report on how scientists are studying how superbugs can get into the food supply.

"The economic reason this chicken producer gave up antibiotics" PBS NewsHour 8/10/2017

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SUMMARY:  For decades, almost all factory-farmed chickens were raised on antibiotics.  But low doses of “maintenance” antibiotics can spur bacteria to build resistance, creating superbugs.  Economics correspondent Paul Solman and science correspondent Miles O'Brien report team up to examine why one major chicken producer went antibiotic-free while most still continue the practice.