About 3 million pounds of antibiotics are given to humans…

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

When we prescribe antibiotics for a strep throat, it's not even for the strep throat. It's for the complications of the strep throat.

— Mikhail Varshavski

When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but rather issues…

— Moby

While consumers may be more shocked by pink slime or the feeding of Prozac to poultry, the routine feeding of millions of pounds of…

— Michael Greger

I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the…

— Nargis Fakhri

I don't want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production…

— Alice Waters

I don't prefer to fill my body with antibiotics, pesticides, steroids, and growth hormones - my body is my temple, and I treat it…

— Suzanne Whang

I've never had a sinus infection or been on antibiotics since cutting out dairy.

— Mayim Bialik

Medicine allows people to live who would otherwise die, so antibiotics will let people survive infections that they might be otherwise very vulnerable to…

— Carl Zimmer

Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to…

— Richard Carmona

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

People are going to start realizing, why take those antibiotics that are extracts of mushrooms? Why not just have the mushrooms?

— David Wolfe

Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles…

— Archie Kalokerinos

“Food animals also get antibiotics for “growth promotion,” a metabolically mysterious process that has made possible the entire high-volume, low-margin business of industrial-scale farming.…

— Maryn McKenna

The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic - in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -…

— Thomas Szasz