Modern Farmer– September 22, 2019. “This study shows a remarkable increase in resistance,” Ramanan Laxminarayan, one of the study’s authors and the director for the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, tells Modern Farmer. “We saw almost a three-fold increase in AMR in poultry, cattle, and pigs over that time indicating that, across the world, antimicrobial resistance is going up dramatically in animals.”