Do you know what's in your food?
Approximately 70 percent of all antibiotics used in the U.S. are fed to farm animals that are not sick—they are used for nontherapeutic purposes such as growth promotion and compensation for crowded, unsanitary, and stressful farming and transportation conditions. The Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act seeks to change that.
These antibiotics are killing us, and destroying the environment at the same time. The Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, introduced by Rep. Louise Slaughter, would force the FDA to reevaluate how the seven classes of antibiotics important to human health are allowed to be used in agriculture—and decrease the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
The classes of antibiotics included in the bill are: Penicillins, Tetracyclines, Aminoglycosides, Streptogramins, Macrolides, Lincomycin, Sulfonamides, and they should all be treated as the powerful, should-be precious medicines that they are—not drugs used cheaply to compensate for the poor practices of the animal agriculture industry.
