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Climate change could return us to the pre-antibiotic era
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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2024
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I knew crops used pesticides and stuff, why would they use antibiotics too?
I would assume hes talking about livestock farming
That's not agriculture though, crops are. And crops are at least included in agriculture, even if you would expand the definition to also include animals, which I wouldn't.
Animal agriculture is absolutely agriculture. That's why there's a term for it, called animal agriculture.