Farmers in the UK inject cows with estrogen and antibiotics to make them grow faster and bigger.
This is not true. EU rules ban the use of growth hormones and antibiotics as a growth agent in livestock. Antibiotics are still (overused) for disease prevention but there is a realisation that this needs to change (whether it will is a different matter).
I can't find more recent data, but here are figures from 2011 on antibiotic use in livestock in countries around the world, including New Zealand, the US and the EU.
This is not true. EU rules ban the use of growth hormones and antibiotics as a growth agent in livestock. Antibiotics are still (overused) for disease prevention but there is a realisation that this needs to change (whether it will is a different matter).
I can't find more recent data, but here are figures from 2011 on antibiotic use in livestock in countries around the world, including New Zealand, the US and the EU.
https://amr-review.org/sites/default/files/Info%204%20bar%20...
Also, some British supermarkets are now publishing farm antibiotics data from their supply chains:
http://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/waitrose-asda-ms-publish-farm...