Stop the Overuse of Antibiotics on Factory Farms

Factory farms routinely mix antibiotics into the feed of pigs, cows, chickens, and turkeys to speed growth and prevent disease in their unsanitary, overcrowded, and stressful warehouses. Such “nontherapeutic” use in healthy farm animals accounts for an estimated 70% of all antibiotics used in this country.

This endangers people's lives: Overuse of antibiotics is causing bacterial resistance to the drugs, so that antibiotics urgently needed to treat sick people no longer work. This also hurts animals: massive amounts of antibiotics are used to sustain terribly inhumane conditions.

Bipartisan bills have been introduced in the U.S. House and Senate to phase out the routine feeding of antibiotics to healthy farm animals within two years. Please ask your two Senators to "Please cosponsor S. 1460" and ask your Representative to "Please cosponsor H.R. 2932." Click here to find out who your Senators are and how to contact them. To find your Representative, visit Congress.org or simply ask us at [email protected].

To learn more, visit www.KeepAntibioticsWorking.com.

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