FAO warns AMR could drive $318 billion in livestock losses by 2040
Rome, 3 June 2026 -- The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations says antimicrobial resistance in livestock is a major long-term threat to food security, production, economic welfare and human health. The assessment was presented Wednesday on the sidelines of the Fourth Session of the COAG Sub-Committee on Livestock at FAO headquarters in Rome. FAO said current trends, driven by growing demand for animal source foods and continued production intensification, point to a nearly 30% increase in global antimicrobial use in livestock by 2040 compared with 2019. The report says antimicrobial growth promoters can deliver clear short-term productivity... [Continue Reading]
Sponsored
Fear the Shia, Arm the Sunnis: The Uncomfortable Numbers Behind America’s War Narrative
“When fear is managed carefully enough, a nation can be taught to look away from the blood on the floor and stare instead at the shadow on the wall.” A friend of mine, whose name I will not reveal because he asked me not to, sat across from me over dinner and placed a question on the table that would not leave me alone. He was born into a Muslim Shia background, and for the angle of this article, that detail matters, not because I wish to reduce a man to a sect, but because sect has become one of... [Continue Reading]

