Daily Archives: May 2, 2014


This sounds like a good first step, but we need to ban all of prophylactic use of antibiotics in livestock…

This sounds like a good first step, but we need to ban all of prophylactic use of antibiotics in livestock

Industrial farms use so many antibiotics in livestock that we are rapidly approaching the day when they will become completely ineffective.?

From the outside, the long shed off a side road in the Netherlands gives no hint of what it holds. It’s 30 feet wide and as long as an Olympic swimming pool; its metal walls are pierced with tall garage-style doors, and silos are attached to one side. Peter Vingerling,…