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Pigs could go cold turkey.(Brief Article)
A report issued August 13, 2003 by the World Health Organization (WHO) strongly bolsters the United Nations health organization's longstanding position that the common use of antibiotics in healthy animals should be curtailed.
Denmark banned antibiotic use in farm animals in 1999. The WHO study--by an international panel of experts in veterinary medicine and infectious diseases--says the ban has had no serious negative effects. The report concludes that pork and poultry industries in other countries can thrive without using antibiotics to promote animal growth.
In many countries, including the United States and Canada, antibiotics are routinely added to animal feed even when livestock are not sick because antibiotics make animals grow faster and fatter. But the practice can quickly breed supergerms--drug-resistant bacteria that ...
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- Reference information from: Webster's NewWorld Dictionary January 1, 1988 700+ words
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