The Future of Chicken, Without Antibiotics
Human drugs have been crucial to poultry farming. So what’s replacing them?
For decades, farmers have used low doses of human antibiotics to fatten their chickens. In the future, if one company has its way, farmers will use a fungal extract originally found in a Japanese pigsty.
Welcome to poultry farming in 2018. In the past few years, with evidence linking antibiotics on animal farms to , poultry producers (, , etc.) and restaurant chains (, , , , etc.) have pledged en masse to limit
