In Seville, Dr. Mary Beth Hall (USDA) will argue that a complete shift away
from food animal production would present major challenges to meeting America's nutritional needs, leading to nutritional de...
Resistance is also fueled by the massive and often inappropriate use of antibiotics in agriculture; for decades these precious drugs have been used to promote growth and fend off costly infections that can result from the cramped conditions of industrial -
scale food animal production.
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619), which if enacted would withdraw
from food animal production the routine use of seven classes of antibiotics vitally important to human health unless animals are diseased or drug companies can prove that their use does not harm human health.
Mary Beth Hall, an ARS animal scientist at the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center in Madison, Wisconsin, and Robin R. White, a professor of Animal and Poultry Science at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, found that shifting land usage from
food animal production to food crop production would increase the total U.S. food supply by 23 percent.
A complete shift away from
food animal production would present major challenges to meeting America's nutritional needs.
Food Animal Production (Source: Animal Health Institute survey of its members 2001 — 2007); U.S. Food and Drug Administration, (2009 — 2011) Human Medicine source: IMS Health Inc..
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