As the world's population continues to grow exponentially, the amount of arable land is decreasing. As a result, new agricultural techniques have been developed to produce more food using less land. Many of these techniques are considered innovative but come at the expense of the environment or human morality. For example, the large-scale use of antibiotics in livestock feed has become a staple of the U.S. agricultural industry. Of all the agricultural advances made by industry since the days of the horse and plow, none has been as threatening to human health as the use of subtherapeutic levels of antibiotics (Schneider). Antibiotics are useful for sick animals, just as they are for sick humans. In the livestock industry, their indiscriminate use on healthy animals, while profitable for the meat industry, results in the breeding of dangerous antibiotic bacteria called "superbugs" that can potentially devastate the health of consumers. “We're talking about a pre-antibiotic era and an antibiotic era,” CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in his publication “Threats from Antibiotic Resistance.” era. For certain patients and certain microbes, we are already there” (Kerestes, 2010). This scenario is just one of many situations in which short-term corporate profit is jeopardized by the environment and, therefore, consumer safety. In the modern agricultural industry, antibiotics are routinely administered to livestock, such as chickens, pigs, and cattle. increase the growth rate of these animals. The livestock industry currently provides 70 percent of the national supply of antibiotics to healthy livestock. The remaining 14 and 16 percent, respectively, are used to treat...... middle of paper ...... potential health effects associated with CAFOs (gestation rooms), with problems ranging from respiratory illnesses for workers on farms, contamination of air and groundwater, and the creation and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The study also states that antibiotics and steroids used in CAFOs are detected in groundwater and private wells near these facilities and that little or nothing is known about the potential health risks from chronic exposure to them. these contaminants. is eaten in London” (August 2013). BBC UK. www.bbc.co.uk. The future is now. Last summer, in London, the first in vitro beef burger, created by a team of Dutch scientists, was tasted during a demonstration for the press. This will aim to highlight how close we really are to being able to solve all our problems..