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Animals News tagged with antibiotics

USA: Limit Use of Non-Therapeutic Antibiotics in Food Animals ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, antibiotics, environment, protection )

Cher
- 23 days ago - change.org
Championed for over 10 years by the late Senator Edward Kennedy, the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA), H.R. 1549/S. 619, is a federal bill that would phase out the common practice of constantly feeding antibiotics to food
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Stop Inappropriate Antibiotic Use on Industrial Farms
Animals  (tags: animals, industrial farms, antibiotics, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 52 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
As we celebrate Get Smart About Antibiotics Week, which raises awareness about antibiotic resistance and the importance of proper antibiotic use in humans, we should keep in mind that every day antibiotics are inappropriately fed to food animals that
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Antibiotic Resistance at Factory Farms "Scares the Hell Out of" Johns Hopkins Scientists
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, superbugs, antibiotics, factory farms, environment, protection, Farmacology )

Cher
- 94 days ago - all-creatures.org
It turns out they're making more than just broilers and bacon on your local factory farm; they're growing germs that are resistant to antibiotics. And don't think your commitment to organics or vegetarianism will save you: Your exposure to these
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Pass Bill Restricting Antibiotics in Animal Food ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, antibiotics, food, environment, protection )

Cher
- 100 days ago - change.org
Farmers are producing super bugs. There is abundant evidence that the routine use of antibiotics in farm animals produces bacteria which can attack humans and are resistant to many antibiotics. The American Medical Association and organizations like
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Stop Abuse & Antibiotic Misuse ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, factory farms, antibiotics, AnimalWelfare, environment, suffering )

Cher
- 103 days ago - animalrights.change.org
As factory farms have crammed more and more animals into tighter and tighter spaces, modern pharmaceuticals have become regular tools of the trade. By lacing animal feed with sub-therapeutic levels of antibiotics, producers are able to suppress disease
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Stop Overusing Antibiotics on Healthy Farm Animals ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, antibiotics, farm animals, overusing, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection )

Cher
- 133 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Resistance to antibiotics is a public health crisis on the rise. These crucial drugs should only be used when necessary but 70 percent of antibiotics used in the United States are given to healthy chickens, pigs and cattle to increase weight gain or to
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Sign Petition: Support AB 1437 - Don't All Egg-Laying Hens Deserve to Stretch Their Wings?
Animals  (tags: animals, suffering, cruelty, death, environment, humans, health, safety, risks, disease, food, illness, money, corruption, business, dishonesty, factory, farming, pig, cow, chicken, fish, water, pollution, meat, steroids, antibiotics, global, warming )

Tom
- 190 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Last fall, California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 2, a law that prohibits keeping egg-laying hens in cruel and intensive confinement in California. But eggs from hens in other states who are kept in the very same conditions are sold here.
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Prescription for Disaster: Sub-Therapeutic Antibiotic Use on Farm Animals ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: farm animals, antibiotics, AnimalWelfare, overcrowding, disease, AnimalCruelty, protection, environment )

Cher
- 231 days ago - farmsanctuary.org
According to the National Academy of Sciences, roughly 70 percent of the antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs used in the U.S. are fed to farm animals in order to promote growth and prevent rampant disease from striking where animals are kept
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Antibiotic Alligator: Promising Proteins Lurk in Reptile Blood
Animals  (tags: alligators, antibiotics, proteins, bacteria, animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Cher
- 593 days ago - sciencenews.org
Researchers hunting for new antibiotics might get some aid from gator blood. Scientists are zeroing in on snippets of proteins found in American alligator blood that kill a wide range of disease-causing microbes and bacteria, including the formidable
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