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One of the drivers of antibiotic use in farming is the fact that price points for food need to remain low because of stagnant wages. In order to eke out a profit, industrial amounts of food are needed at lower costs and those costs need to go down even in the face of inflation.

It's yet another perverse incentive and market failure that'll lead to ruin.



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