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A country that allows humans to buy antibiotics over the counter OR allows antibiotic use in healthy livestock needs to be heavily sanctioned very quickly. Sanctions from the international community can include ceasing aid, adding visa requirements or other travel restrictions, food import bans, or whatever.

I don't understand why other countries (and the international community as a whole) still accept this behavior.

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"Approximately 80 percent of the antibiotics sold in the United States are used in meat and poultry production.2 The vast majority is used on healthy animals to promote growth, or prevent disease in crowded or unsanitary conditions."

https://consumersunion.org/news/the-overuse-of-antibiotics-i...

Exactly. It happens almost everywhere. I claim moral superiority coming from a place where there are no over-the-counter antibiotics and none used in healthy livestock :)

We spend so many billions in subsidies to farmers, I wonder why we can't push them to adopt better growing and animal husbandry practices.

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