Covid Alerts Investors to Farming’s Antibiotics Risk, Group Says
- Antibiotics use in farm animals helps spread drug resistance
- Investors and leaders are paying more attention to the issue
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The Covid-19 crisis is drawing fresh investor interest into tackling an over-reliance on antibiotics in farming that risks causing future pandemics, according to Fairr.
The group, which lobbies to improve practices in animal farming, said investors are thinking more about how overuse of the medicines causes antimicrobial resistance, which when passed to humans is making infections harder to treat.