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The pork industry tackles antibiotics
Dec 11, 2017, 13:50 PM
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Consumers continue to have questions about antibiotic use in meat production and pork producers are working to answer those questions.
The director of Indiana Pork checkoff programs says the pork industry is doing its part to educate consumers on antibiotic use in hog barns.
Jeanette Merritt says pork producers continue to reduce antibiotic use, and when they do use antibiotics, it is done judiciously.
“Livestock farmers are not just going out and administering antibiotics to every animal on the farm at will,” she says.
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