... another treatment that still complies with the rules for the production of organic dairy products. In non-organic dairy herds antibiotics are used as therapeutics, growth promoters, prophylactics to stop diseases and they also improved digestion. Therefore, without the antibiotics the cows will be more difficult to milk due to there 'stressed' state. However, there are some good points to not giving the cows antibiotics. These generally affect humans more than the cows themselves. This is because in normal milk there are some antibiotic residue from the cows themselves causing the problems of antibiotic resistant bacteria being past through the humans who come in contact with these germs some times causing death. One of the problems that farmers face when producing organic milk is that cows are making milk 'according to their natural cycle'. This is a problem because cows that are used for the production of organic milk cannot be ...

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