pumping them full of antibiotics under factory farm conditions seems like an awful hack anyway.
it's like running eighty concurrent webserver processes and killing them 100 times per second round-robin because if you don't kill them constantly they will bring down the whole system.
I mean maybe this setup "works" but aren't we really stretching the definition of that word?
> it's like running eighty concurrent webserver processes and killing them 100 times per second round-robin because if you don't kill them constantly they will bring down the whole system
A significant portion of the drugs used in feed are used to tip the digestive chemistry so that the feed is processed more efficiently. It isn't that big an effect, but it isn't really wildly crazy. There's a bunch of studies on feeding ionophores to graze animals (which I take as a demonstration of intent).
it's like running eighty concurrent webserver processes and killing them 100 times per second round-robin because if you don't kill them constantly they will bring down the whole system.
I mean maybe this setup "works" but aren't we really stretching the definition of that word?