http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004381989_farmstudy30.html

Report urges huge changes to factory-farming practices
WASHINGTON — Factory farming takes a big toll on human health and the environment, is undermining rural America's economic stability and fails to provide the humane treatment of livestock, concludes an independent, 2 1/2-year analysis that calls for major changes in the way corporate agriculture produces meat, milk and eggs.
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In the end, even industry representatives on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production agreed to such recommendations as a ban on the nontherapeutic use of antibiotics in farm animals, a phaseout of all intensive confinement systems that prevent the free movement of farm animals and more vigorous enforcement of antitrust laws in the increasingly consolidated agricultural arena.
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The report also calls for implementation of a long-delayed national tracking system that would allow trace-back of diseased animals within 48 hours after a human outbreak of food-borne disease.

I 2nd that shibadiva - long overdue. Also the cattle producers will be wringing their hands over the use of no anti-biotics. If the fed the animals healthy from the get to there is no need of medical intervention and hormone inducement.