Antibiotics sales for farmed animals will increase in 2022
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This is one of Vox's Future Perfect predictions for 2023; they give it a 65% probability.

Nearly two-thirds of medically important antibiotics in the US are fed to farmed animals, which worries public health experts as some bacteria are evolving to become resistant to the lifesaving drugs, ushering in a post-antibiotic area.

The FDA and the companies that produce and sell meat are under pressure to tackle the problem. But the FDA seems reluctant to wade into the issue, and advocacy groups say grocers and restaurant chains that pledged to reduce antibiotic use in their supply chains aren’t following through. Given governmental apathy and corporate laggards, and the fact that beef production — which uses far more antibiotics than pork and poultry — is projected to have grown 2 percent in 2022 (compared to 2021), I think antibiotic use will have slightly increased in 2022.

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This resolves YES because Vox has published their judgment, "Antibiotics sales for farmed animals will increase in 2022 (65 percent) — RIGHT" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24006533/2023-predictions-revisited-trump-biden-politics

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I assume you only consider the US here?

It would be good to note this either in the description or (even better) in the title.

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