As we've mentioned, at least one strain of E coli, which grows in beef cattle, can be gruesome to your gut. Most food-borne illnesses are brief, especially for healthy adults. With a good diagnosis, doctors can treat many other infections with antibiotics. But antibiotics are losing their potency as an increasing number of bacteria become resistant to them. The cause is elementary survival of the fittest.
Resistance arises faster if antibiotics are overused.
In many countries, the drugs can be bought without prescription. Even when a doctor's consent is required, they are prescribed for diseases like the common cold, which, being a viral disease, is immune to antibiotics. While holding that medical misuse was a bigger problem, the Academy's experts did substantiate the concern about agricultural antibiotics. Now we come to the finger-pointing part of the discussion. At any rate, a large quantity of antibiotics is used in agriculture.