The Rural Voice, 2002-06, Page 17perhaps the average producer
doesn't see the importance of
healthy animals to animal
welfare issues but a veterinarian sees
more sick animals "and that's not a
pretty sight. There's such a
difference from the ban that you
walk into and the pigs go 'woof and
they skip around the pen and you
walk into a barn where they're sick
and they're piled up together. That
makes you think that disease is an
animal welfare issue."
"I think disease is mentally hard
on producers," Templeton says.
"People are pork producers because,
just as a grain producers like to see a
good grain crop, they like to see
healthy, fast-growing, happy pigs
and when they're constantly dealing
with pigs that they have to treat, they
just get mentally worn out. It affects
their ability to get up in the morning
and go and tackle the job."
Current consumer concerns about
food safety also can be dealt with by
better biosecurity, says Templeton.
"The more disease we prevent, the
less medications we use at a
preventative level or at a treatment
"I think disease is
mentally hard on
producers."
level. So biosecurity is a win-win
thing."
It's too important an issue to be
haphazard about, Templeton says.
"The health of the Canadian pork
industry. which is highly dependent
upon exports, is also highly
dependent upon the health of our
stock and so I think it's worth some
effort," she says when questioned
about the need for organized
biosecurity meetings similar to
Environmental Farm Plan
workshops. "I think we as individual
veterinarians should be working
more at that and less at treating stock
that's sick."
Higher health status of Canadian
stock could be a selling point in
international marketing because it
would minimize the use of
medication, she says. "There's a
segment of the population that wants
to know that their meat was raised
with less suffering. Less disease is
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