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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (3094)	1/26/2004 2:42:47 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 36918

"The reality is that if you keep animals in good conditions, you don't need the routine use of drugs," he said. There's the truth of the matter. I kept livestock for many years and the best "prevention" of all is to keep animals in a clean environment with plenty of space. Animals kept outdoors rarely develop illnesses so long as they have access to clean water and adequate feed -- and can move into pasture areas that haven't been overgrazed or are carrying parasite eggs. Most really "hot" diseases occur when you have high density populations living indoors -- think veal calves, hogs and poultry living in confinement from birth to death -- the mortality rates can be very high in the event of a disease outbreak.