"On another note (sort of another topic maybe) I do strongly feel that livestock antibiotic sales need to be regulated in Canada. They are horribly mis-used by commercial poultry and pig barns to the point where we are now facing the crisis of superbugs...bacteria which is resistant to antibiotics." quoted from KathyS
Okay...I'll leap in and start another thread. KathyS, I have to disagree with you, sort of.
Antibiotics are not the problem here. Farming practices are the problem here. Animals kept in ways that violate their natures, stresse them, crowd them and offend their instincts...THAT is what leads to sick animals and the overuse of antibiotics. But what needs to be regulated is NOT the use of antibiotics, but the way we keep animals! Remove what makes them sick (stupid housing/farming practices) and you remove much of the need for anitbiotics.
I think anitibiotic use is not the problem, but the symptom of a bigger problem. Therefore I disagree that antibiotic use should be tracked or regulated, other than people who chronically raise animals in ways that ensure their ill health, ought to be cracked on the knuckles. Food production needs to find its ethics again. I think we have lost our way.
This is a jump-off thread from the 'feed sellers collecting information' thread. Hope others toss their hat in the ring.
Okay...I'll leap in and start another thread. KathyS, I have to disagree with you, sort of.
Antibiotics are not the problem here. Farming practices are the problem here. Animals kept in ways that violate their natures, stresse them, crowd them and offend their instincts...THAT is what leads to sick animals and the overuse of antibiotics. But what needs to be regulated is NOT the use of antibiotics, but the way we keep animals! Remove what makes them sick (stupid housing/farming practices) and you remove much of the need for anitbiotics.
I think anitibiotic use is not the problem, but the symptom of a bigger problem. Therefore I disagree that antibiotic use should be tracked or regulated, other than people who chronically raise animals in ways that ensure their ill health, ought to be cracked on the knuckles. Food production needs to find its ethics again. I think we have lost our way.
This is a jump-off thread from the 'feed sellers collecting information' thread. Hope others toss their hat in the ring.