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Overuse of antibiotics for farms was banned in the EU without drastic changes in the price of meat. In fact, even opponents at the time only claimed there would

• whyenot 14y ago
  Based on the recent horsemeat scandal, it appears there are a lot of "cheaters" when it comes to the EU meat supply. How is the ban enforced?
• icegreentea 14y ago
  That 10% may not be accurate. In any case, the EU actually only banned the use of antibiotics as growth promoters, but not as 'preventative medicine'. Furthermore, the level of reporting on actual EU antibiotic use is somewhat spotty - especially given the multinational nature of it all. At best, the ban on growth promotion resulted in an ~10% decrease in antibiotic use. The massive scale on which preventative antibiotic use is applied likely minimized any negative impacts the removal of growth promotion had on actual growth rates. http://www.ciwf.org.uk/includes/documents/cm_docs/2011/a/antibiotics_in_animal_farming.pdf http://www.ciwf.org.uk/includes/documents/cm_docs/2011/a/ant...