Swedish surprise – ESBLs and the environment

In the latest edition of SVARM (2015) they show the link between ESBLs is between man and the environment, not farm animals or food. Over the years, I think I have been brainwashed that the use of antimicrobials in farm animals is bad, especially pig use, and that if resistant bacteria do not contaminate the meat then the contaminated environment is to blame. All the manure we spread over farmland then washes into rivers and then contaminates the drinking water and also spreads to man that way.