Analysis Of Farming Up Trouble By Beth Mole

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“Farming Up Trouble” “Farming Up Trouble”, by Beth Mole is an article that tells people that antibiotics are being used more in the animals that are on the farm than in humans. The article talks about how this could be the where the antibiotic-resistance bacteria comes from. These antibiotic-resistance bacteria are spreading swiftly across farms, and the scientists are scared that this bacteria is traveling out of farms by the farmer’s meat products as said in the article, “Scientists and health experts fear that it is, and the drug-resistance bacteria from farms are escaping via farmworks or meats.”. But in the article, it gives us different view from others such as the agricultural industry had said that the scientists fear is over the top,

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