In what ways are humans affected by agricultural practices that promote bacterial resistance?

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned adding antimicrobials used in human medicine to animal feed for growth promotion purposes, the FDA still allows antimicrobials that are not approved for human use to be used as livestock growth enhancers. While this may seem like a way to prevent resistance to clinically useful antimicrobials, it is not necessarily a safe bet. Drugs used for animals have been documented to induce cross-resistance to human antibiotics. Resistant strains can then be introduced into humans through meat, the environment, animal handling, or through vegetable crops that are fertilized with manure or watered with reclaimed water that may be manure contaminated.