Industrial Livestock

The industrial meat and dairy sector emits more greenhouse gas than the entire transportation sector, while often relying on forced farm and slaughterhouse labor and draconian contracts for farmers. IATP has, for the first time, assigned greenhouse gas footprints directly to the corporations responsible. We are building a global coalition to hold these companies accountable to climate, food safety and human rights standards. 

Smart Guide Hormones in the Food System

Hormones are routinely used in meat and dairy production as growth promoters, given to dairy cows to increase milk production, hormone -active pesticides are sprayed on crops, are used in plastic food packaging and can be found in the industrial chemicals and byproducts, used in industrial processes, which also make their way into the food chain.

Group Letter Urging President Obama to Support The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA) of 2009

To meet the challenge of the misuse of antibiotics effectively, FDA must address the full range of nontherapeutic uses. Addressing only the growth promotion and feed efficiency uses of antibiotics, estimated by industry to be just 10 to 15 percent of the total, would make only a minor dent in the problem.

Group Letter to FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg on Antibiotic-Resistant Microorganisms

The steering committee of Keep Antibiotics Working met with FDA Commissioner Dr, Margaret Hamburg to discuss the Food and Drug Administration’s response to the urgent and growing crisis of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.This letter was sent after after the meeting as a review and to further specific points covered in the meeting.

Group Letter to FDA Requesting Immediate Action on Cephalosporins

Group letter to the FDA requesting asking immediate action addressing the risks to human and animal health resulting from the inappropriate use of antimicrobial drugs in food producing animals by:         1) Making a final decision against the approval of cefquinome for use in food-producing animals,

Smart Guide to Minnesota Dairy Without rBGH

Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) was one of the first genetically engineered agriculture products and is a synthetic hormone given to dairy cows to force increased milk production. It can also cause udder infections leading to increased antibiotic use. rBGH also raises the levels of Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) in cows and cow's milk.

Penicillin in Peril

The reckless use in animals of tried-and-true human antibiotics has contributed to the development of serious antibiotic-resistant human disease. The most straightforward way to address resistant diseases such as CA-MRSA is to curb unnecessary use of all antibiotics important to human medicine in U.S. livestock operations, including penicillin and tetracycline.
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