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The largest consumers of antibiotics are factory farms. A primary function is to keep them alive through horrid living conditions, but it also fattens up the animals faster. Exactly as you mention, antibiotics disrupt the normal digestion process.

I would assume it has a similar impact on humans. And humans may also get some second hand antibiotics from the factory farmed animals they eat.

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