Katie Couric Report on Antibiotic Use in Food Animal Production

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Many industrial farms in the United States feed antibiotics to healthy food animals not to treat disease but to speed growth and to compensate for overcrowded, unsanitary conditions. In fact, up to 70 percent of antibiotics used in the United States are fed to healthy food animals.

CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric presented a two-part report on this practice on February 9 and 10. We encourage you to watch the programs and learn more.

The overuse of antibiotics in food animal production contributes to the spread of drug-resistant bacteria to people. In March 2009, legislation was introduced that would withdraw the use of seven classes of antibiotics vitally important to human health from use on industrial farms unless animals are sick with disease or unless drug companies can prove that their routine use does not harm human health.

Please also forward this message to your family and friends and encourage them to write their representatives. To learn more about the overuse of antibiotics on industrial farms, visit SaveAntibiotics.org.

 

Sincerely,

 

Laura Rogers

Project Director, Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming

 

 

 

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