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Bill USA

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3. thanks for this expert info. IT seems apparent that cramming animals together is why the industrial
Fri Jul 31, 2015, 04:50 PM
Jul 2015

meat farms need to give their animals a continuous supply of antibiotics. We need to just stop that. Buy more land and give the animals more room. If it costs a bit more it's obviously worth it since the route we are on now will lead us inevitably to antibiotic resistant bacteria and plagues. Hard to say how many will die - but the threat is real. It looks like it's just a matter of time.

Thanks again for your expert insight tothe situation. I saw a doc on Canadian tv about some people who are doing farming like you are. They do it in part because they feel in the long run it's more sustainable. Also because they don't like using all the chemicals industrial farms use.

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