How industrial farming techniques can breed superbugs
As high-density, industrial-scale livestock farms have become fertile breeding grounds for disease, they've also become a major source of drug-resistant ...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: But first: our special series Stopping Superbugs. This week science correspondent, Miles O'Brien and economics correspondent Paul Solman tag-team again for a look at how the use of antibiotics in livestock can lead to unhealthy, even dangerous outcomes. Miles begins at a Missouri pig farm, as part of our weekly science series, Leading Edge. MILES O'BRIEN: Pig farmer Russ Kremer is up early, tending to his herd, talking to the animals. RUSSIANS KREMER, Heritage Foods: I have the ability to interact with pigs. I think that they are the smartest, most social animals. I tell people that, if you like kids, you love pigs. MILES O'BRIEN: He is the fifth generation in the Kremer clan to farm this plot of land in Frankenstein, Missouri. He introduced me to the newest resid...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: But first: our special series Stopping Superbugs. This week science correspondent, Miles O'Brien and economics correspondent Paul Solman tag-team again for a look at how the use of antibiotics in livestock can lead to unhealthy, even dangerous outcomes. Miles begins at a Missouri pig farm, as part of our weekly science series, Leading Edge. MILES O'BRIEN: Pig farmer Russ Kremer is up early, tending to his herd, talking to the animals. RUSSIANS KREMER, Heritage Foods: I have the ability to interact with pigs. I think that they are the smartest, most social animals. I tell people that, if you like kids, you love pigs. MILES O'BRIEN: He is the fifth generation in the Kremer clan to farm this plot of land in Frankenstein, Missouri. He introduced me to the newest resid...
