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Animal Health and Food Safety

Pig FarmThis relationship is carefully being studied.

Some of the questions that are debated everyday are the following:

Is free-range better than convention?

Should we be using antibiotics to raise healthy animals?

The focus needs to be on improving animal health through the use of proper diet and a less, stress-free environment.  Proper practices need to be studied.

The focus, as this video points out  should be on making good recommendations, not mandates based on someone’s opinions are a particular group agenda.

This story is a good follow-up to last weeks story about the health benefits of organic food versus conventional food. It is well worth watching.

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