Tell Big Ag to Stop Pumping Healthy Livestock Full of Antiobiotics

[ProfessionalLeftist]

When people get sick, they have to go to the doctor to get an antibiotic prescription. But that rule doesn't hold true for animals raised for meat. Alarmingly, up to 70% of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used on industrial farms in healthy food animals.1 This massive overprescription is breeding new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can -- and have -- spread to humans. The trend is frightening. Currently, more people die in the U.S. from antibiotic-resistant staph infections than from AIDS, and antibiotics continue to decline in effectiveness for treating both human and animal diseases.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is aware of the issue, and has issued something called a "draft guidance," which unfortunately is non-binding and does not go nearly far enough to stave off the coming public health disaster.2 Until the FDA implements effective and unambiguous regulations to curtail the use of antibiotics in meat production, the risks to the American public will only increase.

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http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/antibiotics_fda/?rc=fbp

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I'd like the FDA to warning labels on meat about antibiotics and hormones.

And if not that, then labels extolling the meat is free of antibiotics and hormones. Then let the market decide.