The Antibiotics Problem In Meat Summary

Industrial farms are pumping our livestock full of antibiotics and it's harming societies all over the world. Since the likes of farmers and pastures are shrinking and feedlots and monopolies are growing, the process of meat production has gotten much less intimate and a whole lot more like factory farming. This means that since meat companies want to make as much profit as possible by squeezing as many livestock as they can into one space, they have to find a way to reduce sickness and death because such a large amount of animals are living in close quarters. Their solution: antibiotics, which is bad news for us. “The Antibiotics Problem in Meat,” written by Olga Khazan for The Atlantic (2015), analyzes this problem on both national and international levels. She describes how it affects societies like our own, compared to how it affects third world societies, and what that means for all of us. She shows the solutions that people have already tried to implement, why they’ve failed, and what we need to try next in order to …show more content…
She then follows the statistics and facts with their credible sources that she obtained them from, showing us that we can trust that the information is solid, and that we can safely accept her thesis. She then transitions into some ethical issues that come into play with the problem at hand: that developing countries are particularly at risk to antibiotic resistance, as they will use the most antibiotics on their livestock, and are more prone to a variety of diseases than their fully developed counterpart countries. This starts Khazan’s effective cycle of emotion to logic to credibility over once again, so that she may appeal her thesis to the audience by making us feel for the helpless citizens of the developing