{"id":2545,"date":"2009-08-19T00:11:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2009-08-19T00:11:39","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:11:39","slug":"avma-says-pew-commission-report-is-flawed-unscientific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/avma-says-pew-commission-report-is-flawed-unscientific\/","title":{"rendered":"AVMA SAYS Pew Commission report is flawed, unscientific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Response addresses commission&#8217;s recommendations, advertisements<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An AVMA report says recommendations by a prominent critic of industrial animal agriculture are unscientific and can actually threaten human health.<\/p>\n<p>The document, available at www.avma.org\/PEWresponse, questions the validity of the content and review process for a report published in 2008 by the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production (www.ncifap.org) on the sustainability of the nation&#8217;s food animal production systems. The AVMA contends the report is not consistent with the well-documented, science-based reports that the Association has come to expect from the Pew Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The AVMA response is being widely distributed, and members of Congress are among those who will receive copies.<\/p>\n<p>The AVMA document, &#8220;The American Veterinary Medical Association Response to the Report of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production,&#8221; was a product of members of eight volunteer leadership councils and committees and three staff divisions. The Pew Commission report, &#8220;Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America,&#8221; was a two-year project of the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. David R. Smith, a professor and the extension dairy and beef veterinarian for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said it is important for the AVMA to provide veterinarians&#8217; perspective on the Pew Commission&#8217;s conclusions. He said authors of the Pew report have been trying to raise awareness about their recommendations, particularly among members of Congress involved in antimicrobial use legislation.<\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avma.org\/onlnews\/javma\/sep09\/090901a.asp\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Response addresses commission&#8217;s recommendations, advertisements An AVMA report says recommendations by a prominent critic of industrial animal agriculture are unscientific and can actually threaten human health. The document, available at www.avma.org\/PEWresponse, questions the validity of the content and review process for a report published in 2008 by the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}