One arm of our government has passed regulations intended to severely reduce the use of antibiotics like terramycin for treating honey bee diseases.  Now another branch of government has passed regulations which will allow use of perhaps one million pounds per year of terramycin on citrus trees.  See article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00878-4

My question is if use of a few thousand pounds per year at most on honey bees produced a risk of resistance in some disease humans catch why is there not a far greater risk from using one million pounds per year on citrus?  This makes no sense to me at all.

Dick

HL Mencken said: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. "

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