McKenna's Beating the Devil — Antibiotic Resistance Narrative Intelligence

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Core thesis The chicken we eat today is a product of 70 years of agricultural antibiotic use that simultaneously drove the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria entering the human food supply. The agricultural dimension of AMR — largely invisible to consumers and most clinicians — is as important as the hospital dimension.

Primary frameworks

• Growth Promotion History — 1940s discovery that sub-therapeutic antibiotics accelerate animal weight gain
• Agricultural AMR Emergence — how farm antibiotic use selected resistant bacteria in food animals
• Farm-to-Fork Transmission — resistant Salmonella, Campylobacter, E. coli reaching humans through food chain
• MRSA in Livestock — livestock-associated MRSA (LA-MRSA) as agricultural AMR entering communities
• Regulatory Reform — EU growth promotion ban, FDA VFD rule, consumer pressure as partial solutions

What this tile gives an agent:

• Agricultural AMR narrative and evidence for One Health arguments
• Farm-to-fork resistance transmission chain intelligence
• Livestock-associated MRSA as community AMR driver
• Regulatory reform history and gaps for AMR policy advocacy