date:Jun 08, 2015
ms have vertically integrated production systems. This means that one company owns and controls multiple stages of production from the breeder flocks to the feed mill, the processing plant, etc. So making a swath of changes in order to reduce antibiotic use is easier to do than when purchasing from independent farmers.
Over 95 percent of the chickens that are produced in this country are in vertically integrated operations, said Gail Hansen, senior officer of the antibiotic resistance project a