Should factory farming be phased out within ten years?

I am an ER nurse, and I have watched patients die from infections that used to be routine to treat. The CDC estimates antibiotic-resistant bacteria cause more than 35,000 deaths a year in the US, and a major driver is the routine use of antibiotics in crowded livestock operations to promote growth and prevent disease. CDC. Factory farms are, functionally, incubators for the next resistant superbug. A ten-year phaseout gives producers time to transition to systems that do not need constant drug dosing to keep animals alive in their own filth. This is not a lifestyle debate about your burger. It is about whether we keep burning through our last effective antibiotics so meat can stay a dollar cheaper.