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From the Christian Science Monitor, by ben Arnoldy Each day, dozens of trucks piled high with firewood pass over the moonscape of Paktia Province on the road to Kabul, Afghanistan's capital. The local cutters who supply the convoys must head ever higher up the increasingly bare mountainsides to bring back a day's living bundled on donkeys.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned the use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics, used to treat bacterial infections in poultry. *** Why it was banned

Sustainability is big in corporate America today. The word, that is. Once an arcane term used chiefly by foresters and agricultural researchers, "sustainable" has become the label of choice that executives use to describe their businesses.

Fearing that the animal drug Baytril -- used to fight infections in chickens -- could pose health risks to humans, the Food and Drug Administration decided to ban its use in poultry.

The Food and Drug Administration for the first time will withdraw approval of a veterinary drug because it has caused the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that threaten human health.

Though the summer skies were mostly clear and sunny as the AFL-CIO convened this week on Chicago's renovated pier jutting into Lake Michigan, the cloud of the departure of the Service Employees and Teamsters from the federation hung over the proceedings all week.

FDA bans use of animal drug Bad effect on human counterpart cited After five years of debate about human health concerns, the FDA ruled Thursday that an antibiotic made by Bayer Animal Health in Shawnee cannot be used for treating poultry.

FDA bans antibiotics for poultry Move is a big step toward protecting humans from food-borne illnesses By Jonathan D. Rockoff Sun National Staff Baltimore Sun July 29, 2005