Through you, Mr. Chair, absolutely I can.
We just completed a literature review of animal welfare solutions to reducing prophylactic antibiotics. This includes everything from reducing animal density to reducing the mixing of unfamiliar animals, improving ventilation, sanitation, environmental enrichment and increasing the amount of time before animals are weaned and separated from their mother.
All of these are solutions to reduce the use of antibiotics given prophylactically, which is routinely done in Canada and around the world and the reason that 75% of antibiotics are given to farm animals today.