ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of problems factory farming raises for human health, with special emphasis on antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can arise in animals and infect people. It concludes that there are legitimate disagreements about what we should do about factory farming but that everyone should agree on two things: first, we should defer to the best available science rather than viewing these issues through the prism of political ideology; second, we should think carefully about the moral trade-offs of different policy proposals rather than pontificating from an armchair.
