Embracing the Sustainability Conversation

Embracing the Sustainability Conversation By Chelsea Dinterman, Communications Intern, Animal Agriculture Alliance   How will we feed 10 billion people by 2050? It’s a question that was asked many times throughout the animal science courses of my undergrad. My fellow students had some go to answers: “improve technology” or “improve production practices,” but the most popular…

What can you do about extremists taking activism to the altar? New book offers “biblical case for eating meat”

Over the past decade, a growing number of misleading messages about modern animal agriculture have been presented by animal rights activist groups to church and religious leaders or in religious forums, under the guise of religion and compassion. Some animal rights activists are using religion as yet another way to influence public policy to eliminate…

Potential Impacts of No Antibiotics Ever/Raised Without Antibiotics Production on Animal Health and Welfare- Executive Summary

Randy Singer, Ph.D., D.V.M., professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota, along with a team of other experts including Dan Thomson, DVM, PhD, of Kansas State University and Jennifer Wishnie, DVM, of California Polytechnic State University surveyed veterinarians and farmers to identify the impact of “Raised Without Antibiotics” or “No Antibiotics Ever” production on…