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.
A groundbreaking report reveals that beef and pork brands sold by major grocery chains failed to disclose basic information about drug use – and some may not even know the answers.
Giant farms—whether growing crops or animals—often rely heavily on chemicals and produce waste that pollutes the water and air. As a result, the system we’ve designed to feed the planet also takes a serious toll on its health.
The majority of U.S. chicken sold last year was produced without antibiotics. This positive change helps protect people from drug-resistant infections.
The House is hotly debating amendments to the Animal Drug User Fee Act of 2018. Unfortunately, leadership of the Energy and Commerce Commmittee seems determined to miss its chance to finally put an end to eleven antibiotics of medical importance…
Over past decades, the feeding of medically important antibiotics to healthy livestock animals has become entrenched practice. Predictably, new guidelines from the World Health Organization calling for the end to overuse of these precious medicines on farms has been met…
Against the backdrop of crisis in untreatable or nearly untreatable infections, sales of antibiotics for use in livestock -- which help drive this epidemic -- just keep surging upwards.
