I hear about antibiotics in meat constantly, but all of the biggest meat suppliers I know don't use them. For example, Perdue and Tyson both don't raise chicken with antibiotics. So where are antibiotics being used?
I think that this is sometimes misleading marketing-speak.
For example, Perdue says, "All of the animals for our branded products are raised in no-antibiotics-ever programs"; as a big company, surely this leaves enough vagueness for them to raise and sell animals with antibiotics under other brands/products. Since it's a private company, consumers can't know really what percentage of animals fall under one category or the other.
The sea change in chicken production demonstrated it was possible to quickly scale down antibiotics in farming, but it didn’t do much to reduce overall use, as the chicken industry only used 6 percent of antibiotics in agriculture in 2016. And the momentum didn’t spread to other parts of the meat business, like beef and pork, which together account for over 80 percent of medically important antibiotics fed to farmed animals.
Edit: why is this downvoted?