Five British Labs Use Horses in Experiments, Claims Animal Right

[conniegirl]

And the drugs which do make it to market have to cover the costs of every drug that has failed safety or efficacy testing - because pharma companies are businesses and do have to make ends meet!

Forgot about that bit!

 

[ester]

No poultry is commercially reared, anywhere, without 24/7 access to a/bs. The clue is in the word 'commercial', as without the permanent lacing of foodstuffs, so any enterprise would collapse. 80-90% of those birds reared would die before their due date.

Alec.

eta, and just to underline the use of the word 'Permanent'. It means just that, Antibiotics aren't administered as and when their needed, all feed is medicated, 'permanently' from hatching to the abattoir.

And despite all that we are still on a hiding to nothing trying to reduce the incidence of campylobacter because people can't cook and handle food properly .

We're just developing our first pure antibiotic resistance assay (carbapenem) (we have a human TB assay which includes some too) and overall although not great it really isn't practices in this country we need to worry about increasing resistance.