Chemicals used in animal husbandry: justified and unjustified instances of its application

Chemicals used in agriculture – this is one of the most effective ways to make it more profitable. The use of chemicals allows for minimal cost  to achieve good results, whether it is cultivation of various crops or livestock production.

The View that the use of chemicals livestock – it is solely the use of hormones, antibiotics or harmful chemical additives to the rapid increase in meat mass, is not correct. First chemicalization of animal breeding aimed at disease prevention and improved nutrition of the animals. So, the most part of food supplements are intended to boost the protein component of feed – that is, they are added or synthesized proteins, or complexes of amino acids. Similar components are part of many children's mixtures or preparations of clinical nutrition, therefore it is possible to speak with confidence about their safety. Their application allows to significantly increase and accelerate the growth of the meat mass, significantly reducing feed costs, so it is not only fully justified, but also highly desirable.

Also of considerable importance for the industry have such food additives as fodder yeast. For meat production their use is invaluable: the use of one ton of yeast allows you to increase pork production to seven hundred  pounds, and poultry – up to two tons, and they are not only dangerous for somebody's health, but contain several vital nutrients.

In Addition to increasing the nutritional value of the feed chemicals used in livestock can be directed to their safety during the winter period. It can be not only substances used as preservatives to prevent spoilage of feed, and the remedies for their physical protection from external factors, for example, various films or containers made of polymeric materials.

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The Following type of chemicals used in animal husbandry – veterinary medicines and means of combating infection. They include not only medicines designed to treat existing disease or to be used for their prevention (for example, to prevent the worm), but also all sorts of disinfectants. These include such increasingly popular measure of prevention of veterinary diseases, as the use of antibiotics, which simultaneously stimulate the animal's growth and provide greater safety of meat. Of course, at a certain stage it can be effective, but in the end it only hurts the animal, because the constant use of antibiotics leads to the fact that bacteria develop resistance to most of them, and the likelihood of severe epidemics only increases and means of combating it constantly limited. Besides, these substances in the final product, thereby making it unsafe for human consumption. The same with hormonal therapy – in the 80-ies of the last century, began their active use in livestock than many scholars tend to explain the sudden acceleration in the human population, occurring in 80-90 years-either before or after the average height of young men was not so large.

Then began to infiltrate everywhere and biotechnology in animal husbandry, but in recent studies the safety of using transgenic food in human nutrition some scientists questioned, therefore, biotechnology  used with caution. However, the use of chemicals  livestock at  excessive and inappropriate application of drugs can bring a proven harm, but about the dangers of GMOs unknown, more than that, many put it in doubt.