There are warnings the rampant overuse of antibiotics in animal farming could cost the equivalent of the Global Financial Crisis each year.
Now superannuation giant Hesta, along with unlikely allies - Catholic nuns from Texas - are using shareholder activism to pressure some of world's biggest fast food giants to reduce anti-biotic use in food production.
The World Bank has estimated the rise in anti-microbial resistance could cut more than three per cent off annual global trade within decades through falling production and rising health bills.
Anti-microbial resistance, sometimes known as superbugs, are a threat that the World Health Organisation says killed more than one million people in 2019, and that number is expected to grow.
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