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Learning from Other Countries about Antibiotics, Sow Stalls
2013-08-09 22:37:00| National Hog Farmer
The United States is not the only country wrestling with issues, such as use of both antibiotics in livestock production, and gestation stalls. This week Scott Hurd, DVM, associate professor and director of the Food Risk Modeling and Policy Laboratory at Iowa State Universitys College of Veterinary Medicine, makes some valid points about the rest of the story after Denmark banned preventive and growth-promoting antibiotics for pigs in 2000. In over 20 years of food safety research, I have seen quite a few antibiotic-free (ABF) animals, including the famous pigs in Denmark, he writes in his Hurd Health blog. While working in the processing plant, I could often tell when ABF pigs were coming down the line. The animals from the ABF farms usually appeared somewhat unthrifty. Often there was less uniformity in carcass size and more issues. National Hog Farmer Blog read more
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