Buy your pork from Denmark

The use of more antibiotics can result in dangerous germs having more opportunities to evolve and outsmart drugs designed to kill them. Drug-resistant infections now claim 700,000 lives a year around the world, including 35,000 in the United States. Without bold action, the United Nations has estimated drug-resistant pathogens could claim 10 million lives globally by 2050.

Denmark, which is a major producer of pork, has cut way back on the use of antibiotics on

pigs. Here, they use antibiotics at a rate seven times higher than that of Danish farmers. In Denmark one quarter or more of some swine arrive at the abattoir without ever having received any antimicrobial drugs.