Thursday, August 13, 2009

Dangers of Confined Animal Breeding

Another clip from the movie Fresh -- the experience of a hog producer who raised his animals in confinement instead of on natural pasture. Because he injected so many antibiotics into his hogs to combat the diseases that arose in confinement, they developed resistant strains of bacteria. When a boar hog stabbed him in the leg with a tusk, he contracted an infection from which he almost died because it was resistant to all the standard antibiotics. He eventually destroyed his herd, started over, and has had his hogs on pasture for 14 years -- with no disease:


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