{"id":335,"date":"2010-01-02T10:44:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T17:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/?p=335"},"modified":"2010-03-13T08:24:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T15:24:11","slug":"pig-antibiotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/pig-antibiotics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pig Antibiotics"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you missed the attached article<\/a> that appeared in the Bulletin , 12\/29, we hope you’ll take a few minutes to read it at your leisure. The rise in antibiotic use in animals and animal feed is one of the many reasons we wanted to raise our chickens, turkeys and pigs in a chemical free environment. \u00a0In an effort to grow animals faster, bigger and cheaper and to keep food prices deceivingly low, the use of these chemicals has become ‘best practice” with a huge price attached for the consumer. One of the farmers\u00a0interviewed\u00a0for the article \u00a0defended this practice on his 150,000\/year hog farm saying, “They’re (the public) only concerned about\u00a0resistance\u00a0and they\u00a0don’t\u00a0care\u00a0about\u00a0economics\u00a0because, ‘As long as I can buy a pork chop for a buck 69 a pound, I really don’t care.’ ” Yeesh. \u00a0Think about buying a car….is the only feature you look at price? \u00a0Of course not, however, when it comes to pork chops- price is about the only thing you have to evaluate (maybe Country of origin). \u00a0Aside from the barcode label you get no other information. \u00a0There may be some meaningless phrase of the day (natural, free range, inspected, organic, etc), and a cartoon farm animal<\/a> but you really don’t know how that animal was rasied and if the claim is true. \u00a0The point is if we were to buy eggs at the store (the horror!!) we would buy the cheapest, super sale, discount egg in the rack – why? \u00a0Because we know nothing about the product except for price! \u00a0Ridiculous isn’t it!! \u00a0We all know the solution – know your farmer, know your animals when they are alive, know what they are fed, know how they are processed and know the price – then make a decision.<\/p>\n

We just wanted to thank you for\u00a0supporting\u00a0us as you see the big pig picture clearly. \u00a0We couldn’t raise these animals as we do without our customers who DO \u00a0think about drug resistance and\u00a0economics\u00a0and the way animals are raised and treated and the origin of\u00a0their\u00a0food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you missed the attached article that appeared in the Bulletin , 12\/29, we hope you’ll take a few minutes to read it at your leisure. The rise in antibiotic use in animals and animal feed is one of the many reasons we wanted to raise our chickens, turkeys and pigs in a chemical free […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}