Union of Concerned Scientists - FEED Newsletter

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FEED - June 2007

Contents

1. What you can do: Keep antibiotics working
2. Three states consider pharma crop bills
3. Conservation program funding may be slashed
4. Pet food recall highlights concerns about animal feed
5. A consumer's guide to organic food

1. What you can do: Keep antibiotics working
An estimated 70 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States are added to the feed of livestock and poultry that are not sick—a practice with serious consequences for human health. Bacteria that are constantly exposed to antibiotics develop resistance to the drugs. This means that when people get sick from resistant bacteria, the antibiotics prescribed by doctors don't work. Please write to your representatives in Congress today and ask them to support the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2007 (S. 549, H.R. 962), a bill that would preserve clinically important antibiotics for human use.
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