Soil plays a much bigger role in the spread of antibiotic resistance than one might imagine, new research indicates.
It might also be an issue of the exposure to certain fungi in the soil that increases these reactions,btw.
What is quite interesting, nevertheless: There is good evidence that people living around/downwind from industrial animal farming locations suffer from more multi resistance infections, even when they are not in contact with any workers of the location, but is highly dependent on the quality of the air filters in the facility.
It will be interesting to see how the study OP linked will link with these results.
Animal manure is full of diseases. We need to switch to green manure.
Funneling curbside composting to farms would probably help. And would cut down on food waste and the need for more landfill space.
No,sadly it would make matters worse. Household/curbside composting has huge issues with multiresistant bacterial growth, drug residue,etc. That egg shell someone added? Congratulations, you have a high chance of adding certain multiresistant strains+residue of drugs used in poultry. There is a reason why a lot of countries do not allow that near professional food production.
