In this photo file, piglets are seen in a pen on a hog farm belonging to Russ Kremer in Frankenstein, Mo. Researchers estimate that up to 70 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are given to healthy animals to compensate for the effects of unsanitary farm conditions.

First published in the February 19, 2011, 9:16 p.m. edition

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