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The Overuse of Antibiotics in Livestock Feed Is Killing Us

Martha Rosenberg
http://www.alternet.org
January 28, 2010

 

Over 70,000 Americans die each year because of antibiotic resistance, thanks to the overuse of antibiotics in medical treatments, factory farming and soaps.

January 26, 2010 - The 2000s were go-go years for antibiotic resistance. Thanks to the overprescription of antibiotics in medical settings and the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in concentrated animal feeding operations (or CAFOs), we've aided the emergence of 'superbugs' -- or drug resistance microorganisms. Antibiotic resistance (AR) has led to the deaths of 70,000 Americans a year.

You'd think this would elicit some immediate action to prevent this public health nightmare from growing. But in 2007 when the (now) late Sen. Edward Kennedy introduced legislation to discourage the overuse of the antibiotics responsible for AR, it gained no traction. The reason? Kennedy stepped directly on the toes of two of the country's most powerful lobbying interests -- Big Ag and Big Pharma.

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