I just don’t buy the industry’s line on this. Antibiotic over-use has become a serious health issue. We are continually exposed to all sorts of antibiotics in the foods we eat, then wonder why when we get sick - they don’t often work like they use to...
Yes it has...take a sick kid to the doctor and you have to fight for antibiotics...kids are actually losing their hearing with untreated ear infections which are very painful. Yet, they put it in our food all the time.
It won’t be nearly as expensive as trying to stop antibiotic resistant bugs.
I’m a little irritated with the FDA approval of an ecoli vaccine for cattle too. It seems to reduce the urgency of sanitation and frankly I’d rather eat beef that was free of E coli because it was clean than eat filthy beef because it was vaccinated.