Is It True That Farmers Feed Antibiotics To Livestock To Make Them Grow Faster?

6:21 pm in animals rights, Cattle, chicken coop, food, News, pigs by TreeHugger

up close and cattle photo "Up Close and Cattle" Image credit:Flickr, Alex E. Proimos I always thought the 'it makes them grow faster' reasoning for why they put antibiotics in animal feed was a myth and that the truth was more complex. Farmers found they could crowd animals while keeping disease levels down - giving consistently higher meat and dairy production - if they constantly laced the feed with a witches brew of antibiotics. Yes, if farm animals have to fight off frequent infections they are going to put more energy into getting better and less into growth or lactation; but t...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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