UCSF docs call on hospitals to ditch antiobiotic-treated meat

"...Today, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco are calling commentary in the American Journal of Public Health to call on the country’s hospitals to ditch meat from farms that pump their livestock with antibiotics. The UCSF Medical Center’s cafeterias and catering services have been phasing out such meat for the past two years, they report. And the effort parallels that of some restaurant chains, most notably, Chipotle. The strategy could limit life-threatening infections and help preserve the effectiveness of antibiotics, experts say..."