Tag: antibiotics
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Hollywood Heavy Weights Call for Legislation to Stop Abuse of Antibiotics on Factory Farms
An estimated 80 percent of antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used in the agricultural sector…
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FDA’s New Voluntary Antibiotics Policy Fails to Protect Human Health
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday issued new guidelines regarding use of antibiotics in food animals that are not sick. Under the new rules, food animal producers no longer be able to use antibiotics to make animals grow faster. If producers need to give the drugs to a sick animal, they will have to get a…
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8 Scary Facts About Antibiotic Resistance
Many of us who get the flu this winter will demand antibiotics from our doctors. And hopefully, your doctor will turn you down. Antibiotics, which kill bacteria, don’t cure the flu. That’s because the flu is caused by a virus, not bacteria. So your doctor would be prescribing an unnecessary drug. [caption id="attachment_314492" align="alignnone" width="500"]…
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Farmed Fish Production Overtakes Beef
As the global demand for animal protein grew more than fivefold over the second half of the twentieth century, humans began to press against the productivity constraints of the world’s rangelands and oceans. Annual beef production climbed …