Chemicalization of agriculture is one of the most effective ways to make it more profitable. The use of chemicals allows for minimal results to achieve high results, whether it be the cultivation of various crops or the production of livestock products.
The opinion that the chemicalization of animal husbandry is exclusively the use of hormonal drugs, antibiotics, or harmful chemical additives to quickly increase meat mass is not entirely correct. First of all, the chemicalization of animal husbandry is aimed at preventing diseases and improving animal nutrition. So, most of the nutritional supplements are aimed at increasing the protein component of feed - that is, either synthesized proteins or amino acid complexes are added to them. Similar components are part of many infant formulas or therapeutic nutritional products, so you can safely say about their safety. Their use can significantly increase and accelerate the growth of meat mass, significantly reducing the cost of feed, so it is not only justified, but also highly desirable.
Also important for the industry are nutritional supplements such as fodder yeast. For livestock farming, their benefits are invaluable: the use of one ton of yeast can increase the production of pork up to seven hundred kilograms, and poultry meat up to two tons, moreover, they are not only not dangerous to anyone's health, but also contain a number of vital nutrients .
In addition to increasing the nutritional value of feed, the chemicalization of animal husbandry can be aimed at their preservation during the winter period. It can be not only substances used as preservatives to prevent food spoilage, but also all kinds of means for their physical protection from external factors, for example, various films or containers made of polymeric materials.
The next type of chemicals used in animal husbandry are veterinary drugs and infection control agents. Their list includes not only medicines designed to treat existing diseases or used to prevent them (for example, to prevent helminth infections), but also all kinds of disinfectants. This may include such an increasingly popular measure of preventing veterinary diseases as the use of antibiotics, which simultaneously stimulate the growth of animals and ensure greater preservation of meat. Of course, at a certain stage it can be effective, but in the end it only harms animal husbandry, since the constant use of antibiotics leads to the fact that bacteria develop resistance to most of them, and the likelihood of severe epidemics only increases, and the means to combat it are constantly limited to. In addition, these substances enter the final product, making it thereby unsafe for human consumption. The same thing with hormonal drugs - in the 80s of the last century, their active use in animal husbandry began, than many scientists are inclined to explain the unexpected acceleration in the population of people that occurred in the 80-90s - neither before nor after the average growth of young people wasn't so big.
At the same time, biotechnology in animal husbandry began to be introduced everywhere, but in connection with recent studies, the safety of the use of transgenic products in human nutrition is questioned by some scientists, so biotechnology is used with caution. Nevertheless, the chemicalization of animal husbandry with excessive and inappropriate use of drugs can cause proven harm, but the dangers of GMOs are unknown, moreover, many question it.