Jim Finke
Dr. Robert Murdock
English 1001
17 April 2014
Complete Annotated Bibliography
Over the last few weeks we've been gathering a wealth of information to use in our
second research project. Here is a complete list of all 12 sources I've used in the paper as well as
a few that didn't make the cut, simply because the information lead me to other articles of the
same nature that were more detailed.
Sustainable Food Lab. United National Forum on Sustainability Standards, 2012. Web. 17
Jan. 2014.
- This website led to some great ideas which I didn't realize were possible. This site has
some amazing information pertaining to farming techniques both inside and outside of a
laboratory setting. It really has helped me better understand the concept of sustainable agriculture
and livestock production.
Food Issues: Food & Sustainability. Culture of Resistance, 2013. Web. 12 Jan. 2014
-This website delves into the history of agriculture as well as the errors of our common
practices we employ today. It's a very insightful article that led me to realize that I wanted to
write on the basis of commercial feedlots and how those feedlots are using farming techniques
that are not only harmful to the environment but to us as well.
Sustainable Harvest International. Nonprofit Organization, 2010. Web. 24 Jan. 2014.
-This article is an excellent look into how organizations across the globe are dealing with
the problem of food sustainability by looking at how they attack the problem of farming
practices. It's a very useful website for looking at different types of farming practices that are
used worldwide today and how successful they've become.
"Industrial Livestock Production." Sustainable Table. Grace Telecommunications Foundation,
n.d. Web. 10 Mar. 2014.
-This webpage looks at how current animal husbandry practices are destructive and
cannot continue at the same pace they're currently running. It's really helped me look at the
horrors of current livestock production in a more empathetic light rather than the articles I've
found that are scientific and factual.
"Infectious Disease: Antibiotics in Animal Feed." The American Journal of Nursing 102.2
(February 2002): 57. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.
-This article delves into the risks we face when animals we use as food for ourselves is
subjected to constant bombardment from antibiotics in their feed. The article is scientific in
nature and backs up its facts with other studies that have been conducted in the same field. It will
help to back up my argument that the current practices of animal husbandry in an industrial
setting is harmful, specifically to us.
Aarestrup, Frank Møller. "Association between the consumption of antimicrobial agents in
animal husbandry and the occurrene of resistant bacteria among food animals."
International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 12.4 (August 1999): 279-285. Web. 15
Mar. 2014.
-This article looks at how bacteria becomes resistant to antibiotics through repeated use
and how often we treat our livestock with those antibiotics is causing us to contract these
resistant strains of microbes. It's a very powerful article that will back up my claims that using
these disease prevention methods, namely using an antibiotic to blanket-treat a supply of
livestock, is not the best course of action for smaller outbreaks.
Allen, Heather K. and Uri Y. Levine, Torey Looft, Meggan Bandrick, Thomas A. Casey.
"Treatment, promotion, commotion: antibiotic alternatives in food-producing animals."
Trends in Microbiology 21.3 (March 2013): 114-119. Web. 22 Mar. 2014.
-This article looks at alternative measures of disease prevention, such as small scale
quarantine, to treat diseases found in livestock. It's a very helpful article because it doesn't
demonize the use of antibiotics, but instead looks at how their use can be altered by not treating
an entire herd of animals but by only treating the animals that have come in contact with the
diesease.
Bernfeld, Jeremy. "Beef feedlots grapple with never-ending waste." Harvest Public Media:
Cultivating stories from the ground up. Harvest Public Media Mag., 11 Dec. 2012. Web.
21 Mar. 2014.
-This article looks at how the waste of industrial feedlots can cause extreme
environmental damage as well as the proper steps to ensure the safety of our environment. This
article is more along the lines of a newspaper or magazine article which is easier to read than
many of my other sources. This will help my readers understand that large scale operations in
which livestock is involved can be dangerous to the environment if not handled correctly,
supporting my argument that natural grazing is a safer alternative to feedlots.
Elzen, Boelie and Frank W. Geels, Cees Leeuwis, Barbara van Mierlo. "Normative contestation
in transitions 'in the making': Animal welfare concerns and system innovation in pig
husbandry." Research Policy 40.2 (March 2011): 263-275. Web. 16 Mar. 2014.
-This article looks at the pig industry and how those animals are mistreated and how
disease spreads due to close confinement and the inability to move freely away from waste. This
article has two purposes in my project; the first is to give visual facts that can put everything into
perspective for my readers, and the second is to tug at the heartstrings through use of that visual
imagery.
Ha Thai, Truong and Takuya Hirai, Nguyen Thi Lan, Ryoji Yamaguchi. "Antibiotic resistance
profiles of Salmonella serovars isolated from retail pork and chicken meat in North
Vietnam." International Journal of Food Microbiology 156.2 (15 May 2012): 147-151.
Web. 19 Mar. 2014.
-This article looks at a specific strain of bacteria and how it's become resistant through
the use of a single antibiotic that is used as the only method of disease treatment and prevention.
This backs up other articles in my project by bringing a real world example where the authors
have gone out into the field and conducted a study in a specific area.
Johnston, A.M.. "Animals and antibiotics." International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 15.3
(September 2001): 291-294. Web. 13 Mar. 2014.
-This article looks at what types of microbes are most commonly contracted by livestock,
and what types of antibiotics are used to counteract those diseases. This will serve to show the
audience that the antibiotics that we use on our livestock is the same antibiotics we use on
ourselves and how eating meat that has been treated with these same antibiotics is more resistant
and we can contract these resistant strains of bacteria.
Khan, S.J. and D.J Roser, C.M. Davies, G.M. Peters, R.M. Stuetz, R. Tucker, N.J. Ashbolt.
"Chemical contaminants in feedlot wastes: Concentrations, effects and attenuation."
Environment International 34.6 (August 2008): 839-859. Web. 15 Mar. 2014.
-This article looks at the types of contaminants in feedlot waste and how it affects the
environment and the animals. This will support the argument that the industrial feedlots we rely
on are inherently dangerous to the environment if not handled correctly but also brings to light
that many of the fertilizers we use on our own gardens come from this composted waste, thus in
turn creating another avenue of profitability in the responsible feedlot industry.
Marshall, Bonnie M. and Stuart B. Levy. "Food Animals and Antimicrobials: Impacts on Human
Health." American Society for Microbiology 24.4 (October 2011): 718-733. Web. 20
Mar. 2014.
-This article goes into detail on how the use of antibiotics are creating resistant strains of
bacteria and that those bacteria can infect us through consumption of the meat produced. It also
looks at the fact that the same antibiotics used in animals are the same used on us. This article
will support the argument that other methods of disease prevention should be employed before
resorting to antibiotics in the effort to create a more safe feedlot culture.
Marty, Esther and Chantal Bodenmann, Jasmin Buchs, Ruedi Hadorn, Elisabeth Eugster-Meier,
Christophe Lacroix, Leo Meile. "Prevalence of antibiotic resistance in coagulase-negative
staphylococci from spontaneously fermented meat products and safety assessment for
new starters." International Journal of Food Microbiology 159.2 (1 October 2012): 7483. Web. 25 Mar. 2014.
-This article looks at how antibiotic resistant strains of a specific bacteria can show itself
in meat that is on our supermarket shelves in the terms of fermented meat, which is supposed to
be safer for consumption. This will assist in my claims of antibiotic use being dangerous if used
as the only method of disease prevention and how these bacteria can show up in items that we
would deem safer for consumption.
Nobile, Carmelo G.A. and Rosa Costantino, Aida Bianco, Claudia Pileggi, Maria Pavia.
"Prevalence and pattern of antibiotic resistance of Campylobacter spp. in poultry meat in
Southern Italy." Food Control 32.2 (August 2013): 715-718. Web. 24 Mar. 2014.
-This article looks at the antibiotic resistance of a specific strain of bacteria in a specific
region of Italy and how the practice of raising the animals by using antibiotics as a growth
promoter can lead to a harmful product that can infect people. This further makes my argument
concrete by looking again at another specific example from another region of the world using the
same farming techniques.