antibiotic-free livestock

Resisting Antibiotic Resistance

April 22, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
antibiotic-free livestock, antibiotic-resistance, CDC, deep-straw pork systems, Denmark pork industry, drug-reistance, hogs, superbugs, sustainable pork production, swine

In its March 30 edition, Scientific American put the issue succinctly: “You could not design a better system for guaranteeing the spread of antibiotic resistance.” The “system” the publication was referring to…
Reaching Out in Hog Country

March 17, 2011
Brian DeVore
Food and Sustainable Agriculture
antibiotic-free livestock, deep-straw swine systems, hog farming, rural communities, sustainable livestock

Independent hog farmers are beginning to feel like inhabitants of isolated desert islands, with oceans of corporate-controlled CAFOs (as well as corn and soybean fields) separating them from their peers. That became…