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April 08, 2021
Is Canada’s hog industry doing its part to counter antibiotic resistance, now considered a world health crisis? The most recent “report card” available seems to say, “no!”
February 17, 2021
Will the world’s addiction to industrial livestock production bring an end to the age of the “miracle drug?”
January 27, 2021
Despite long-standing and widespread warnings of the dangers, hog producers on the Canadian prairies were still feeding more antibiotics to their pigs in 2018 than they did the year before. (Latest figures available.)
January 27, 2020
How the power of the pork industry thwarts efforts to protect the public from infectious diseases. A CBS "Sixty-Minutes" video.
December 10, 2019
Nitrogen crisis threatens Dutch environment—and economy
August 02, 2019
Cargill Closes Feed Mills in China Due to African Swine Fever
July 24, 2019
The smell, the noise, the dust: my neighbour, the factory farm
July 04, 2019
It’s feared that a disease deadly to hogs, “PEDv,” will return to the rampant stage it reached in Manitoba in 2017.
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