Colo. Plan to attend the Spoksperson Reception, Wednesday, Feb. 4. Don't forget to send us your activity response forms. The reports help use to evaluate the effectiveness of the Spokesperson Development program. And you've bristled. For the same reason people use antibiotics.
Cattlemen use government-approved antibiotics to prevent and treat disease only when needed.
Two types of antibiotics, tetracyclines and penicillin, have been at issue because these antibiotics are used in human medicine as well as animal medicine. Penicillin has never been fed to cattle because it has never been approved by the FDA for feeding to cattle. A more recent issue regarding antibiotics is the theory that antibiotics used in animals create resistant bacteria, which in turn may be transferred to people through food. The bacteria could make the person sick, but subsequent treatment with antibiotics may be unsuccessful because the bacteria have grown resistant to them. This theory hinges on three premises.