AR-News: (UK) Farm Animals 'Could Be Treated with Plant Extracts'

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

By Amy Caulfield, PA News 


A forthcoming ban on antibiotics and steroids in farming could soon see pigs 
and cows feasting on herbs and spices, it was revealed today.

Scientists at Leeds University are conducting research into herbal remedies 
in the farmyard as an alternative to antibiotic growth promoters in animal 
feed, which the European Union will ban from 2006.

And one solution to allow EU farmers to continue to compete in the 
marketplace will see pigs dining on swill garnished with garlic and cows chewing on 
cinnamon-flavoured cud.

Dr Henry Greathead, a researcher at the department of biology, is 
experimenting with essential oils from thyme as a treatment for coccidiosis – a disease 
of chickens currently controlled with in-feed antibiotics.






full story:
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2452884



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