Namibia’s Ban in healthy animals
read the WHO article “Namibia’s ban on antibiotics in healthy animals drives meat exports” and a short follow-up article from 2020 and answer the following questionsby writing an abstract using less than 250 words.
1. As you remember from lecture 2, antibiotic use in food animals is/was practiced for two major reasons. What are these reasons? How does Namibia manage to avoid antibiotic use in the beef industry?2. Eliminating antibiotic-use in food animals provides a number of benefits. What are some of these benefits? How is antibiotic-free beef production beneficial to countries such as Namibia? 3. The WHO lists 4 recommendations on antibiotic use in food-producing animals in the “WHO Guidelines on use of Medically Important Antimicrobials in Food-producing Animals”. Based on the WHO article you read, how does Namibia comply with these recommendations?Remember to provide at least one reference to scientific literature.