Tag: NPPC

  • Antibiotics Safe for Livestock Use

    Antibiotics Safe for Livestock Use

    Just like we’ve been sayin’ all along… The Government Accountability Office released a report that stated there isn’t sufficient evidence  to warrant a study into a link between antibiotic use in food animals and antibiotic resistance in humans. Did you get that? Here, I’ll say it again. GAO said “these data [collected by USDA] lack crucial details necessary…

  • Short, Sweet and Loud

    Short, Sweet and Loud

    No, I’m not describing myself.  Haha I’m talking about a letter to the editor that Randy Spronk, Chairman of the Environmental Committee for the National Pork Producer’s Council (NPPC), recently submitted to the New York Times. Spronk was writing in reply to another outlandish article by anti-meat columnist Mark Bittman. Although Spronk’s letter was only…