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Old 04-29-2016, 08:17 PM   #219
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I agree to some extent. There was and still is to some extent an over eagerness to give antibiotics. But I don't agree with CFIA clamping down too hard.... it's more the vets handing out antibiotics like candy that I raise an eyebrow at. But at the same time, I don't want to be jumping through 5 different hoops to get a bottle of antibiotics my animal needs.
Is it so much the vets or the fact that mass production is required? Feedlots are notorious for creating herd disease, so mass vaccination is usually done to try and prevent it.

Move to grassfed beef and you have less disease, but its impossible to feed the world that way. At least at this rate.
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