If antibiotics no longer work, we also lose organ transplantation, cancer treatments, kidney dialysis, safe childbirth, many types of surgery, and cheap meat.
The cheap meat part seems a bit contradictory…the reason we’re losing antibiotics, in part, is because they are used to produce cheap meat.
So we either keep feeding antibiotics to livestock, in which case we increase the rate at which we lose antibiotics, and then lose cheap meat…
Or, we stop feeding the antibiotics to livestock, in which case we lose cheap meat.
So either way, cheap meat is doomed in the long run. There’s no magical fairy world where we keep feeding vast amounts of antibiotics to livestock and that doesn’t help fuel antibiotic resistance, is there?
