Gabriel Moyano Ortega

27-Jun-2017Thomas75% of all antibiotics are used in animal farming. Biggest problem is the system, that uses antibiotics in prophylactic way. The big mega farms (1000 mother sows and more) can not work without antibiotics. Most pig farmers do not believe that medium and big farms can work without antibiotics. We work already 6 years without antibiotics (500mothersows til fattening) and have not met comparable farms with comparable results. Animal care knowledge is today on a very poor practical level. Poor payment, little animal care knowledge ... now that antibiotics stops working, the system will collapse ... a system that produces only cheap meat. Meat must become expensive again to get quality not quantity and to stop all the problems related to the quantity production of animal farming (ecology destroyed, people eat too much meat, because it is so cheap and retail suggest that eating meat around the clock is normal, but it's not) The Meat industry is by far too concentrated. Full circle farms with max. up to 600 mother sows and no antibiotic use, no super fertile mother sows (with 35 and more piglets - which then are brought up with all the artificial milk and medicaments) will be the future of animal farming. Quality meat 2-3times a week is healthy and enough. Quality meat can be only produced with minimum of antibiotics (max. 5% of all piglets produced per year get once a medication). Currently big farms use up to 500 times more (with every feed change prophylactic use). Good farmers or animal producers are only those who work with almost no antibiotics, so basically there are currently only a few good pig producers left.