Jacobs writes: "How many rounds of antibiotics does it take to raise a Danish pig?"
Soren Sondergaard, a pig farmer in Denmark, with his pigs. (photo: Ciril Jazbec/NYT)
16 December 19
American pigs are raised on a liberal diet of antibiotics, fueling the rise of resistant germs. Danish pork producers are proving there’s a better way.
ow many rounds of antibiotics does it take to raise a Danish pig?
If it is one of the 35,000 piglets raised each year on Soren Sondergaard’s sprawling farm, odds are the animal will get just a single course before it goes to slaughter.
At times, a quarter or more of his swine arrive at the abattoir without ever having received any antimicrobial drugs at all.
