>Numerous health experts have warned that, without new antibiotics, the world risks a return to the medical dark ages, when the slightest knick or scratch could spawn a lethal infection that doctors had no way to treat.<p>The use of antibiotics in the agricultural industry has allowed farmers to raise animals in inhumane conditions with minimal sanitation. The CDC believes this is contributing to antibiotic resistance, and the FDA has only been able to <i>recommend</i> that farmers use the drugs "judiciously." [1] We effectively subsidize this industry on the back of future species-scale human suffering.<p>Our politicians have proven to be too shortsighted to do anything but hope for new discoveries, prioritizing short-term gains over a catastrophe that those with multi-drug-resistant infections are presently living through. This article does us a disservice by misrepresenting that discovering new antibiotics is the <i>only</i> way we can address this problem.<p>1. <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/narms/animals.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cdc.gov/narms/animals.html</a>