28.8 Million Pounds of Antibiotics
Every year, 28.8 million pounds of antibiotics are given to US farm animals. That is according to the FDA, and means that farm animals are using 4x antibiotics than people are. The end result is that antibiotics will cease to work for us (because it all ends up in the water supply, and bugs get immune to it). So just think of all the times a doctor has prescribed antibiotics to you, and understand that in the future similar illnesses could easily kill you. But hey, we got to eat a lot of hamburgers 🙂