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"We produce nine billion food animals in the United States every year. And most of these animals are fed antibiotics throughout their life. And it’s the single greatest use of antibiotics in the United States.” Lance Price, director of the TGen North Center for Microbiomics and Human Health in Flagstaff, at the ScienceWriters2011 conference on October 16th.
"And then this is the thing that just drives public health people crazy: most antibiotics are fed to healthy animals to promote growth or to prevent diseases that may be just occurring because of the way we’re raising them. Overcrowding and unsanitary conditions—we call them production diseases. And so we’re using these lifesaving drugs as production tools. It’s pretty amazing.
"So most animals are raised in concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAPOs. I could not honestly engineer a better system for creating antibiotic-resistant bacteria than to introduce antibiotics to this setting. And that’s exactly what we do every day in the United States. If we all recognize that antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to public health that we face today, we have to do something about this.”
—Steve Mirsky
參考譯文：
微生物學家 Lance Price 在10月16日于Flagstaff(美國亞利桑那州的一個城市，譯者注)舉辦的的2011年科學作家大會中說明，當代動物類食品的生產方法事實上已經成為（人類）能產生耐抗生素（藥性）的原因。---Steve Mirsky 報道。
“而且還有一件讓大眾抓狂的事情：很多健康動物也被喂抗生素用來提高生長速度和防止由于喂養方式帶來的疾病。也就是過量擁擠和不衛生的環境，我們稱之為生產過程疾病。所以我們其實在用治病的藥物也就是抗生素來做為一種生產（食品的）工具。這尤其令人驚異。我們美國每年生產九十億量的動物類食品。這中間的大部分動物是終生服用抗生素的。在美國，這簡直是抗生素最偉大的用處。
“所以很多喂養動物用一種強化生產運營方式也就是平時說的CAPOs養大的。我得老實說沒有比用這種引入抗生素的方式更好的系統設計（來使得人類）產生耐抗生素（藥性）。而這就是我們美國每天都在確確實實干的事情。如果我們大家都能認識到耐抗生素（藥性）已經成為我們今天面對的最大的公眾健康威脅之一，我們就真的需要做點什么了。”
—來自Steve Mirsky報道
原文鏈接：Animal Production Practices Create Antibiotic Resistance
