Antibiotic responsibility and agricultural publics: diverse stakeholder perceptions of antibiotic use in animal agriculture
| dc.contributor.author | Lansing, David | |
| dc.contributor.author | Barrett, Jaime | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-25T20:02:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-05-25T20:02:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-05-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines diverse perspectives around the concept of responsibility concerning antibiotic use in animal agriculture. Antibiotic use in agriculture has been identified as a source of antimicrobial resistance, one of the largest public health threats today. In the United States, efforts to curb antibiotic use in farming draws on a diverse range of actors—including farmers, veterinarians, consumers, and public health advocates—and relies on a mix of industry standards and federal guidelines around responsible use. The paper selects a similarly diverse range of people and employs Q methodology to query the points of disagreement and consensus around the practices that constitute responsible antibiotic use in animal agriculture, and who is responsible for antimicrobial resistance. We find a diverse mix of actor types across three discourses, but with clear differences between farmers and public health advocates. We also argue that, in some cases, points of disagreement and agreement are often based on different interpretations of ideas, indicating points of common ground where there might appear to be disagreement, and areas of difference where there appears to be agreement. We argue that these flexible interpretations of some of the key issues around antibiotic use are nevertheless grounded in durable differences in views of what agriculture is and what it should be. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The authors would like to thank all interview subjects and Q sort participants for their time. The authors received funds from United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute for Food and Agriculture grant #2018-68003-27467. The funders had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10460-023-10422-w | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 14 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2d41o-wsae | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Lansing, D.M., Barrett, J. Antibiotic responsibility and agricultural publics: diverse stakeholder perceptions of antibiotic use in animal agriculture. Agric Hum Values (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10422-w. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10422-w | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/28092 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer Nature | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Geography and Environmental Systems Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Student Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
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| dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
| dc.title | Antibiotic responsibility and agricultural publics: diverse stakeholder perceptions of antibiotic use in animal agriculture | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4586-7893 | en_US |