Curbing Antibiotics in Livestock Is Good for You

Your meat is about to get more expensive. That's a good thing.

After much debate, the Food and Drug Administration ismoving to curb the widespread use of low-dose antibiotics in livestock. For reasons that we don't fully understand, antibiotics cause livestock to grow larger, which means more meat per pig. Unsurprisingly, a lot of farmers use them. But over the next three years, the FDA will require farmers to get a prescription from a veterinarian to use them, meaning that antibiotics will still be used to treat sick animals -- but not to make healthy ones meatier.