BTW, you can already see a shift in the industry from calling out the antibiotic use as a growth enhancement, to calling it a preemptive use to prevent sickness. It just happens that when you collect animals together in high density feedlots to fatten them up - it does create increased illness rates - in addition to being a vector for breeding and spreading resistant bacteria.
So the label has changed, but the end effect of pouring tons of antibiotics into conditions that breed resistance is still there unless we change conditions in feedlots.
So the label has changed, but the end effect of pouring tons of antibiotics into conditions that breed resistance is still there unless we change conditions in feedlots.