Under the strains of a massive PEDv epidemic, pig farming in the USA are getting part way there
"We move pigs around a lot, which increases risk,'' added Torremorell.
"Our production model is a disadvantage."
Their problem, as in Britain and elsewhere, is a massive infrastructure: intellectual, financial, sales and physical committed to the current production model.
It is going to be a major problem to change course to something safer and more resilient.
If they solve PEDv with vaccines, as they hope eventually, there will still be a dozen more disease disasters lined up to exploit the same weaknesses in a dangerous failed model.
And that is a model reliant on huge quantities of antibiotics to keep co-infections under control and any semblance of a successful industry.
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PEDV discussed at length during Minnesota Pork Congress
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Lisa Becton, Dave Wright and Montserrat Torremorell answered audience questions on PRRS, influenza and PEDV during a moderated panel at Minnesota Pork Congress on Jan. 14.
Posted: Monday, January 27, 2014 10:02 am |Updated: 10:02 am, Mon Jan 27, 2014.
Lisa Young,
MINNEAPOLIS - Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus was the hot topic during the Minnesota Pork Congress.
