Expert BlogUnited StatesAllison Johnson, Nina Sevilla, Lena Brook
The upcoming White House conference presents a rare opportunity for the Biden administration and Congress to advance racial justice, health, environmental protection, and local prosperity.
We need sweeping climate action—and we cannot afford to overlook our food system in that effort. With powerful legislation, sustained funding, and action from businesses, institutions, and consumers, we can do it.
NRDC interviewed more than 100 farmers and ranchers who are building healthy soil and growing climate-resilient communities across the country. This guide incorporates much of what we learned.
El NRDC entrevistó a más de 100 agricultores y ganaderos que construyen suelos saludables y desarrollan comunidades resistentes al clima en todo el país. Esta guía incorpora mucho gran parte de lo que aprendimos.
Expert BlogInternational, United StatesDavid Wallinga, MD, Lena Brook
Sales of livestock antibiotics have risen for the second straight year. The alarming trend underscores how urgently federal leadership is needed to protect us from future infections untreatable with antibiotics.
By prioritizing natural climate solutions and agricultural resilience, the Biden-Harris climate plan promises to guide U.S. food and farm policy into the 21st century.
For the second year in a row, San Francisco grocers reported almost no details about antibiotics used to produce beef or pork sold in the city. It's time for grocers—and their meat producers—to step up.
Antibiotic resistance is one of our gravest public health threats. Antibiotic overuse is a key driver of the problem, yet antibiotics of medical importance are routinely fed to herds of beef cattle on feedlots whether or not animals are sick…
The United States is grappling with COVID-19, the worst public health crisis in a century. Another worsening health crisis is staring us in the face, one caused by antibiotic-resistant infections. Without urgent action to stop the overuse of antibiotics, including…
To prepare for future disease threats—like drug-resistant superbugs—information is critical. New, non-public data shows that 44 percent more antibiotics of medical important are sold for cows and pigs than for human medicine.
