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Resistance is a balance of medicine, science, and social activism. Graziano and Park provide a historical look into how antibiotics have come to play a significant role in healthcare as well as the production of animals-for-food. The pervasive use of antibiotics may account for an increasing occurrence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, leading to disability, and even death. The directors of the film interview a number of medical professionals, scientists, social activists, animals-as-food producers, and persons who have faced antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Additionally, Graziano and Park explore alternatives to the use of antibiotics the animals-as-food industry by looking at a system adopted by animals-for-food producers in Denmark in the early 1990s as a way of getting antibiotics out of the food supply chain. Resistance serves as good discussion starter on the role antibiotics play in health, and whether they should or should not have a place in the food supply chain. This film has a place in libraries that serve programs related to public health, biology, sociology, and agriculture studies.