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And yet this only happens in the US.
by Gordonjcp 4y ago
And yet this only happens in the US.
- elil17 4y agoEU did it until last year, when they banned it. The US should follow their lead.
- Tor3 4y agoSome countries in Europe (e.g. the Nordic countries) banned the practice a decade or more ago already. What's new is that EU as a whole bans it. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/antibiotic-use-in-livestock-in-europe https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/antibiotic-use-in-livesto...
- biorach 4y agoMy understanding is that even before the EU ban it was much less common in the EU than in the US because most EU countries regulate antibiotic use in agriculture.
- Beltalowda 4y agoAlso there's less need for it in the first place as welfare conditions are usually better. Who could have expected that livestock that's not kept unhealthy conditions tends to be healthier.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoExcept in Denmark where they use, or perhaps used to use, vast quantities of antibiotics intensive pig rearing.
- Beltalowda 4y agoNo doubt; same in Netherlands (more pigs than people in the country). But there's been improvement over the last 20 years on the animal welfare front, at least in the Netherlands and presumably Denmark too. And routine administration of antibiotics is banned everywhere in the EU now, AFAIK without too many exceptions.