Feed That Kills - Max Gaddis

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/27/opinion/fda-antibiotics-guidelines-opinion/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

Industrial producers of animals that go into the food we eat in America give them small doses of antibiotics in their food so that they won't spread diseases in the small, compact, spaces that they are squeezed into, and so that they will grow big and offer more meat. We then, in turn, eat those same antibiotics, not knowing that bacteria is learning from this antibiotic code and mutating itself so it is not affected by those antibiotics. Then small things like a cut or scrape become infected by warrior bacteria and it gets harder to even control a small scrape without getting sick. The FDA wants to limit the use of antibiotics on the animals because of antibiotic resistance. The antibiotics go from the feed that is given to animals, to the animals, to meat, poultry and vegetable farms to be used there I'm guessing as soil, then the meat goes to us whether through vegetables or meat. Actually, 80% of our antibiotics in the U.S. go to feed, the other 20% come directly to us for cures.

I want to know why the FDA didn't do something about this earlier, and why 80% of our antibiotics go to feed so that farmers can cram animals in unhealthy conditions and get away with it.