The growing need for antibiotic-free products has challenged producers to decrease or completely stop using antimicrobials as feed supplements in the diet of broiler chickens.
The agricultural industry has long been a scapegoat for the effects that antimicrobial resistance has had — or could have — on human and animal health.
It’s necessary to be educated on the judicial use of antibiotics in food animals, but it’s also important to understand how access at the right time matters.
A new study from Kansas State University sheds light on the relationship between drug treatments and the emergence of antimicrobial resistance.
We occasionally use growth hormone implants, sometimes use antibiotics, and use vaccines as needed. And Farm Babe is proud to talk about it.
A new “report” has come out scaring consumers about antibiotics in meat, and the mainstream media is all over it.
Boehringer Ingelheim recognized three dairy producers for their the judicious use of antibiotics in its Producers for Progress recognition program.
There is a lot of misinformation about livestock antibiotics on the internet, but it’s so important to ask farmers and vets about this topic.
The consumer and public health advocacy organization U.S. PIRG Education Fund wants McDonald’s to commit to a concrete timeline to phase out antibiotics in its beef and pork supply chains. The activists say “they are singling out the iconic fast food company because McDonald’s has an outsized influence as the biggest purchaser of beef in […]
For America’s pig producers the FDA 2016 Summary Report on antibiotic use in food-producing animals came as no surprise