Comments on: On the Ground with the Farmers Producing Antibiotic-Free Meat

By: Emily Baron Cadloff

Emily Baron Cadloff — Tue, 07 May 2024 13:44:10 +0000

In reply to Me Mo.

Hi Megan,

Thanks for reading the piece, and letting us know. Some farmers do use antibiotics, but obviously not everyone will choose to. We love to hear about individual farms and sustainable farming practices, however, so if you’d like to tell us more about your farm, you can reach me at emily@modfarmer.com.

By: Me Mo

Me Mo — Tue, 07 May 2024 00:59:41 +0000

"Although the US banned the use of antibiotics for growth, they are still used for disease prevention and disease control. If one animal gets sick, the entire group is often treated because they live in such close proximity to one another." I'm sorry- but this assumption is just typical alarmist rhetoric. How about some scientific research to document this "fact." We have never done this practice on our beef farm and all the other beef and pork farmers we know, don't do it either. I love to read Modern Farmer articles, but find lately the authors make some pretty strong opinions that are often not based on facts.

By: Healinghawk

Healinghawk — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:57:51 +0000

I don’t eat red meat or any pig meat, but I eat chicken and turkey; I’ll bet they get the antibiotics, too, and the cramped quarters (where the standards are “if a bird can raise its wings half-way, that’s free range,” free-range is disinformation intended for the ignorant, like the Trumpster and right to work. If the societal discourse is only various shades of disinformation in service to profit at any cost. Is it any wonder the 6th Mass Extinction is ignored?
HH