he watched with growing concern the increasing use of antibiotics — both to battle infections and to fatten up the animals. While looking for possible alternatives, he came across intriguing ...

New study explores the use of Random Antimicrobial Peptide Mixtures (RPMs) as a safe and effective alternative to antibiotics in cultured meat ...

Unfortunately, it is not very common for any of the above alternatives to adequately replace animals in experiments. However, it does happen and consideration to these alternatives should always be ...

Farmers work to enhance the animals’ natural immunity to resist commonplace diseases rather than relying on veterinary intervention. In high welfare systems, farmers use antibiotics solely to treat ...

Alternative options to using antibiotics for disease prevention in animals include improving hygiene, better use of vaccination, and changes in animal housing and husbandry practices. In the 5th ...

At present, an estimated 80 percent of all antibiotics in this country are used “sub-therapeutically” to facilitate the keeping of farm animals in overcrowded, stressful and unsanitary conditions, and ...

But since approximately 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used by the meat and poultry industry to make animals grow faster or to prevent disease in crowded and unsanitary ...

The researchers say their findings could lead to the development of new anti-infective drugs as alternatives to antibiotics whose overuse has ... to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and ...

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) points to a 55% drop in antibiotic use in food-producing animals since 2014. and an 83% decrease in the use of antibiotics most ...