Helping deliver safe, affordable and sustainable animal protein

Healthier animals are more productive, use less resources, and therefore reduce their impact on the environment.

Meat and seafood farmers use progressive animal health practices and innovative technology to keep animals and fish healthy. Healthier animals help contribute to sustainable agriculture. Merck Animal Health is committed to advancing the health of animals and safeguarding animal and food safety with our vaccines, medicines, and monitoring and traceability technology.

Healthier Animals Help Sustain Our Environment

For generations, farmers and ranchers have utilized sustainable agricultural practices to reduce their environmental impact and use of natural resources while producing more sustainable meat and sustainable seafood to feed a growing global population. By using progressive animal health practices and today’s most innovative health-monitoring technologies, they keep animals healthy – and healthy animals produce less emissions, require fewer resources to raise and produce more food.

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Hormone Implants Help Farmers and Ranchers Raise Beef Sustainably

Safe for Humans and Animals

Hormone implants are a sustainable agricultural practice that help reduce beef’s environmental footprint. They support beef production efficiency by helping cattle convert the feed they eat into beef allowing cattle to be finished earlier and requiring less time on feed and fewer resources per pound of meat produced. This enables cattle ranchers to raise more beef with fewer animals. Hormone implants are safe for humans and animals and are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Sustainable Agriculture Insights

Fast Facts: Sustainable Food Production

Healthier animals help sustain our environment¹. Farmers and ranchers use progressive animal health practices.

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Healthy animals contribute to sustainable agriculture by producing more food and less emissions.

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Sustainable agricultural practices include vaccines – one important tool that helps protect animals from disease.

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Producer Panel: Sustainability in Beef Production

Sustainable meat production is possible. Hear from cattle producers as they share how they’re improving the sustainability of beef cattle production within their operations. Read about the role of animal health in their sustainability plans and the advice they have for other producers.

Written by Jessica Finck, Ph.D., Merck Animal Health

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References

¹Oxford Analytica. Animal Health and Sustainability A Global Data Analysis — Summary. A Report Produced for HealthforAnimals. April 18, 2023. https://www.healthforanimals.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/AH-and-Sustainability-Report-Summary.pdf. Retrieved May 8, 2025.