Begemann, Stephanie, Watkins, Francine, Van Hoyweghen, Ine, Vivancos, Roberto, Christley, Robert 
ORCID: 0000-0001-9250-3032 and Perkins, Elizabeth ORCID: 0000-0002-0213-8105
(2020)
The Governance of UK Dairy Antibiotic Use: Industry-Led Policy in Action.
FRONTIERS IN VETERINARY SCIENCE, 7.
557-.
Abstract
This article analyses the progress made in the UK with regard to tackling antibiotic "misuse and overuse" in food-producing animals. Moving beyond statistical realities, the paper examines how the UK's industry-led policy approach is shaping practice. Using a multi-sited ethnography situated in Actor Network Theory and Callon's sociology of markets, the UK dairy supply chain policies and practices were studied. Findings reveal that dairy industry policies only partially address the complex network of people, animals, and the environment in which dairy antibiotics circulate. Antibiotic "misuse and overuse" in agriculture is far from a behavioural matter, with solely farmers and veterinarians to blame. Instead, antibiotic use in food animals is embedded in complex economic networks that constrain radical changes in dairy husbandry management and antibiotic use on farms. More attention toward the <i>needs</i> of the dairy supply chain actors and wider environmental considerations is essential to reduce the dairy sector's dependency on antibiotics and support transition toward responsible farming in the UK.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | agriculture, antimicrobial resistance, governance, antibiotic policies and practices, matters of concern, actor-network theory |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2020 15:09 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 23:27 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fvets.2020.00557 |
| Open Access URL: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.00557 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3104615 |
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