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konstruktor on Nov 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: When We Lose Antibiotics, Here's Everything Else W...

To add to that, the grazing animals don't need the antibiotics just to survive their conditions, only the ones in concentrated confinement need them.

colechristensen on Nov 21, 2013 [–]

The confined animals don't need them to survive either, it is just cheaper and easier to treat every animal than it is to only treat the sick ones.

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