Robert Martin: “The U.S. food animal industry must find alternatives to antibiotics for preventing the spread of bacterial infections…”

Unless you very clearly define the terms, the industry will use antibiotics on a routine basis and call it disease control or prevention.

If an animal production system requires regular antibiotic inputs to keep the animals from becoming sick, then the system is broken.

Eliminating the regular use of antibiotics by food animal producers should be one of our top priorities for slowing the emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

No, I don't. How we look at this is it is a weakening of the standards that have been placed for all the tribes that are recognized today, it is who we are.