Antibiotic stewardship and its implications for agricultural animal-human relationships: Insights from an intensive dairy farm in England
Antibiotic stewardship and its implications for agricultural animal-human relationships: Insights from an intensive dairy farm in England
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.07.008
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发表时间：
2020-08-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Raman, Sujatha
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作者：
Helliwell, Richard;Morris, Carol;Raman, Sujatha
抗生素管理的概念最近在英国和欧盟的政策和实践中获得了突出地位，作为减少农业中抗生素使用和应对抗生素耐药性问题的更广泛努力的一部分。本文的目的是提供抗生素管理在实践中对农业动物-人类关系，特别是在集约化系统中可能意味着什么的初步见解。我们首先概述了不同利益相关者对农业动物的预期影响。其次，我们开发的概念，异质性生物社会集体，通过与文献的护理和第三，我们将此概念应用到一个案例研究（集约化奶牛场）农场，探索经验如何动物-人的关系正在改变抗生素管理。三个农场异质性生物社会集体被证实，其中每一个凝聚在一个特定的生活问题与护理和抗生素使用的独特做法，导致集体特异性反应抗生素管理。这些集体是：小牛群体与免疫缺陷的生活问题;挤奶的奶牛群体与“坚忍”的生活问题;干奶牛群体与疲劳的生活问题。最后，我们指出：抗生素使用的变化对动物-人类关系的不均衡影响，特别是护理实践及其后果;人类对动物的控制加强，对动物的健康和福利产生不同的影响。该分析为未来的研究提出了问题，特别是需要测试减少抗生素使用将刺激集约化畜牧业向可持续，高福利和更广泛的生产系统的系统性变化的假设。
The concept of antibiotic stewardship has recently gained prominence in UK and EU policy and practice as part of wider efforts to reduce antibiotic use in agriculture and respond to concerns about antimicrobial resistance. The purpose of the paper is to provide initial insights into what antibiotic stewardship might mean in practice for agricultural animal-human relationships, particularly within intensive systems. We do this by firstly outlining the anticipated implications for agricultural animals by different stakeholders. Secondly, we develop the concept of heterogeneous biosocial collectivities through engagement with the literatures on care and thirdly we apply this concept to one case study (intensive dairy) farm to explore empirically how animal-human relationships are changing in response to antibiotic stewardship. Three on-farm heterogeneous biosocial collectivities are iden-tified, each of which coheres around a particular problem of life associated with distinctive practices of care and antibiotic use resulting in collectivity-specific responses to antibiotic stewardship. These collectivities are: the calf collectivity and the problem of immunodeficient life; the milking cow collectivity and the problem of 'stoic' life; the dry cow collectivity and the problem of fatigued life. In conclusion we point to: the uneven effects for animal-human relationships of changes in antibiotic use including in particular practices of care and their consequences; an intensification of human control over animals with variable implications for their health and welfare. The analysis raises questions for future research, in particular the need to test the assumption that reducing antibiotic use will stimulate systemic change in intensive animal agriculture towards sustainable, high-welfare, and more extensive systems of production.