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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">220</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">C<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/11/cdc-the-number-of-americans-dying-from-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs-vastly-underestimated/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline !important;">DC: The number of Americans dying from antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’ vastly underestimated</a></font></div><div class="mag-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 7px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="author-italic author vcard" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/nicole-karlis/" title="Posts by Nicole Karlis" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Nicole Karlis</a> / <a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/salon/" title="Posts by Salon " class="author url fn" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Salon</a></font></span></div></div><div class="mag-excerpt entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">The CDC says it could get worse — and experts say there are simple things you can do to stop from getting one.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><header style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 165px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative;"><div class="article--header" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; float: none; line-height: 1em;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/antibiotic-resistance-is-not-new-it-existed-long-before-people-used-drugs-to-kill-bacteria-115836" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Antibiotic resistance is not new – it existed long before people used drugs to kill bacteria</font></a></h2><p class="byline" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.2; clear: both;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/ivan-erill-724916" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">Ivan Erill</a>, <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">University of Maryland, Baltimore County</span></font></span></p></div></header><div class="content" data-raw="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 165px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Resistance to antibiotics is not a new trait, and it is impossible to prevent. But it is possible to avoid its spread.</font></span></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">H<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/06/how-factory-farms-could-trigger-a-antibiotic-crisis-and-what-we-can-do-to-stop-it/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4; display: inline !important;">ow factory farms could trigger a antibiotic crisis — and what we can do to stop it</a></font></div><div class="mag-post-box hentry" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; width: 374.545px; overflow: hidden; display: table; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(236, 236, 236); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="magcat-detail" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="grid-post-box-meta mag-meta" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><div class="widgetbrief"><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Lena Brook</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Less than two weeks ago, JBS USA, <a href="https://www.provisioneronline.com/2017-top-100-meat-and-poultry-processors" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">one of our country's largest</a> meat processors, announced a high-risk <a href="https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/recall-case-archive/archive/2018/recall-085-2018-release" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;">recall</a>of nearly 7 million pounds of its raw beef, over concerns it may be contaminated with <em>Salmonella</em> Newport. Nearly 60 patients in 16 states have so far been made sick. This recent outbreak of infections tied to contaminated ground beef is especially worrisome because S<em>. </em>Newport is a strain of Salmonella that has often been resistant to antibiotics. 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</font></div><div><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Antibiotic-Resistant Genes Are Airborne, Exposing Millions</font></h1></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" data-loaded="true" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></span></font><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2590397877" data-authors="Sierra Club" data-headline="Antibiotic-Resistant Genes Are Airborne, Exposing Millions" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description" style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Jonathan Hahn</font></p><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 1991, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District launched a Spare the Air program to keep residents in the San Francisco Bay Area informed of high ozone-level days, when air is smoggy and exposure to poor air quality poses health risks. Now, the air district might need to update its alert system for something other than just ozone: antibiotic-resistant genes (ARGs).</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A team of researchers from the U.S., China, South Korea, Switzerland, and France examined air samples from nearly two dozen cities, including San Francisco, Paris, Warsaw, Zurich, Beijing, Brisbane, and Seoul. <b>They discovered airborne concentrations of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in each of the cities at varying levels, produced by concentrated animal feeding operations, hospitals, wastewater treatment plants and other sources.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Their findings indicate that antibiotic-resistant genes can spread from one bacterium to another, and that this bacteria has the ability not only to travel through the air, but to travel across continents, even across the globe—exposing millions of people to antibiotic-resistant genes whether they live in proximity to those sources or not.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Common everyday human activities such as car traffic can kick up the bacteria and make them airborne," Dr. Maosheng Yao, a collaborating author of the study, <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.8b02204" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><em>Global Survey of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Air</em></a>, and professor of environmental sciences and engineering at Peking University, told Sierra. "Natural winds can also suspend these biologicals into the air."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For wastewater treatment, there is an aeration process that can make biologicals airborne. They are prevalent in areas where human consumption of antibiotics is widespread, such as in hospitals, or where agricultural practices rely heavily on the use of antibiotics.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>San Francisco topped the list of the cities with the highest readings of antibiotic-resistant genes in the air.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We used a novel protocol to get enough air samples from different world cities," Yao told Sierra. "That way we could tell where there were significant differences in levels of ARGs."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The report was published July 25 in Environmental Science & Technology.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Air quality indexes that evaluate how safe the air is to breathe focus on ozone, particulate matter (PM) such as the noxious pollutants emitted from power plants, carbon monoxide and other factors. Those indexes do not include information about antibiotic-resistant genes.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet a growing body of research increasingly points to pharmaceutically-polluted environments in cities worldwide, not just involving water or soil pollution, but air pollution as well. According to the new report, airborne pathogens in hospital environments have been found to be multidrug-resistant; indoor air samples taken in communities near animal-farming operations, where the use of antibiotics on animals is widespread, have been found to be rife with antibiotic-resistant bacteria.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For the latest study, Yao and collaborating researchers profiled 30 known genes that are resistant to common antibiotics, including tetracyclines and amingoglycosides, and examined air samples in 19 cities in 13 countries, each with different climate zones. To get their results, researchers employed an automobile air conditioning filter method to collect samples.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beijing was found to have the highest complex mix of ARGs, with up to 18 different subtypes detected in the air. The most commonly detected antibiotic-resistant genes in all 19 cities were those with a resistance to β-lactams and quinolone antibiotics, with the highest prevalence found in San Francisco, which Yao speculated could indicate heavy use of antibiotics in hospitals there without the proper systems in place to control for airborne emission. The most powerful antibiotics on the market, which are supposed to be reserved for only the most serious medical cases, were detected in six of the 19 cities.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the most surprising discoveries from the study, Yao said, was the low level of ARGs in Hong Kong, possibly attributable to that city's high humidity level.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria including gonorrhea and MRSA pose a significant public health risk, with growing fears of the rise of so-called "super bugs.</b>" Public health warnings such as from <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/community/about/antibiotic-resistance-faqs.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">the CDC</a> often focus on the overuse and misuse of antibiotics, providing guidance on the most appropriate practice for prescribing and consuming those drugs.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These sources, however, provide little to no guidance around the possibility of exposure to antibiotic-resistant genes in the air.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reposted with permission from our media associate <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/antibiotic-resistant-genes-are-airborne-exposing-millions" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">SIERRA Magazine</a>.</font></p><div class="around-the-web" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="around-the-webheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEB</font></div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/global-superbug-crisis-2529961065.html" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">6 Things to Know About the Global Superbug Crisis ›</font></a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/superbugs-meat-antibiotic-resistance-ewg-2582103840.html" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Superbugs Found in Nearly 80 Percent of U.S. Supermarket Meat ›</font></a></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">whelan died of sepsis</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></font></div><div><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'Antibiotic Apocalypse' as Livestock Is Force-Fed 80% of Prescribed Antibiotics Worldwide</font></h1></div><div><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">'Antibiotic Apocalypse' as Livestock Is Force-Fed 80% of Prescribed Antibiotics Worldwide</font></h1></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" data-loaded="true" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></span></font><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2509349786" data-authors="AlterNet" data-headline="'Antibiotic Apocalypse' as Livestock Is Force-Fed 80% of Prescribed Antibiotics Worldwide" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Sophie Linden</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A recent report from the World Health Organization (WHO) describes the dangers humanity faces from overprescription of critical infection-fighting drugs, which has led to both <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/superbugs" style="text-decoration-line: none;">superbugs</a> and <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/antibiotics" style="text-decoration-line: none;">antibiotics'</a> dwindling efficacy, making humans vulnerable to infections doctors otherwise regarded as benign. While overprescription in humans is a viable issue, <a href="https://who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2017/antibiotics-animals-effectiveness/en/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">recent statements from WHO</a> express heightened concern over the ramifications from their misuse in the meat industry.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2017/antibiotics-animals-effectiveness/en/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Stop Using Antibiotics in Healthy Animals to Prevent the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance</a></em><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">is the title of WHO's latest press release, reiterating a message that has been clear for decades. The current culture of force-feeding antibiotics to livestock presents a danger to millions of humans. At present, animals used for</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="https://who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2017/antibiotics-animals-effectiveness/en/" target="blank" style="text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">livestock are fed around 80 percent of prescribed antibiotics worldwide</a><span style="text-align: center;">. The measure has been</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="https://www.alternet.org/food/catastrophic-antibiotic-threat-food" target="blank" style="text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">perpetuated by the low cost of the medicines</a><span style="text-align: center;">, as well as antibiotics' proven ability to accelerate growth and weight gain in livestock, effectively speeding up the process of food production. In 2015, the U.S. used</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/after-years-debate-fda-curtails-antibiotic-use-livestock-542428" target="blank" style="text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;">34.3 million pounds of antibiotics on animals</a><span style="text-align: center;">. The result is antibiotic-resistant bacteria in animals and humans through food and airborne pathogens.</span></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At present, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/13/antibiotic-resistance-could-spell-end-of-modern-medicine-says-chief-medic" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">700,000 people die each year from antibiotic-resistant infections</a>, and it is predicted that this number could <a href="https://thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(17)30141-9/fulltext" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">increase to 10 million by 2050</a>, making low-risk operations like hip replacements and treatable urinary tract infections a new health crisis. The Guardian called the collapse an "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/08/world-faces-antibiotic-apocalypse-says-chief-medical-officer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">antibiotic apocalypse</a>," wherein the world is set to face the same surgical risks it did before 1928, when penicillin was discovered. Essentially a century's worth of medical advances could be reversed.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of WHO, confirmed, "A lack of effective antibiotics is <a href="https://who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2017/antibiotics-animals-effectiveness/en/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">as serious a security threat</a> as a sudden and deadly disease outbreak." This is due in part to a lack of replacement therapies. In its statement, WHO warns that "there are very few promising options in the research pipeline." The Guardian pointed out that this is precipitated by the "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/oct/08/world-faces-antibiotic-apocalypse-says-chief-medical-officer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">failure of pharmaceutical companies</a> to investigate and develop new sources of general medicines for the future." Perhaps, because <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/18/rise-of-mega-farms-how-the-us-model-of-intensive-farming-is-invading-the-world" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">what's broken is still paying off</a>.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The threat of antibiotic overprescription has been <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/food/2017/11/the-world-health-organization-just-told-farmers-everywhere-to-stop-feeding-antibiotics-to-healthy-animals/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">clear since the 1960s</a>, according to Tom Philpott, co-author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Big-Chicken-Incredible-Antibiotics-Agriculture/dp/1426217668/?tag=alternorg08-20" target="blank" data-amzn-asin="1426217668" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><em>Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats</em></a>. But it wasn't until this past January that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made any kind of <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/after-years-debate-fda-curtails-antibiotic-use-livestock-542428" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">regulatory change to address the escalating crisis</a>, asking that the livestock industry no longer use antibiotics to accelerate the growth of animals. However, the language used by the FDA has left an opening for the <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/agriculture" style="text-decoration-line: none;">agriculture</a> industry to continue its use of antibiotic treatments, allowing them to be prescribed and used as <a href="https://www.fda.gov/downloads/AnimalVeterinary/GuidanceComplianceEnforcement/GuidanceforIndustry/UCM299624.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">preventative medicine</a>—treating antibiotics as prophylactics, with plenty of room for indiscretion.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While it is a highly regarded resource, WHO is not a regulatory body, and any reform must happen at the level of government. The troubling lack of concern from the federal government leaves little hope that there will be any change to FDA standards. Given the situation, vegan diets may be one of the main ways to resist the increasing use of antibiotics in livestock, protecting both animal rights and our own immunity to pathogens.</font></p></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>
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</font></b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="headline-container" style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px 12px;"><div class="headline" style="position: relative; line-height: 22px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s Official: KFC Goes Drug-Free to Fight Superbug Crisis</font></div></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="js-scroll-trigger" data-target="body" data-triggers="render-rebelbar" data-toggle-class="with-floating-shares" data-loaded="true" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" /></font><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"><div class="article-body js-expandable sm-mb-2 md-mb-4 js-update-url selectionShareable" data-url="http://www.ecowatch.com/kfc-chicken-antibiotics-free-2349462202.html" data-headline="It’s Official: KFC Goes Drug-Free to Fight Superbug Crisis" data-elid="2349462202" style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px 12px;"><div class="article-description" style="margin-bottom: 20px;"><p style="margin: 10px 0px; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Lena Brook</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What can America's most iconic fast-food chicken chain do to fight the growing epidemic of drug-resistant infections? Set a strong <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/antibiotics" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">antibiotics</a> policy for its chicken supply!</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More than <a href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrdc.org%2Fexperts%2Favinash-kar%2Fantibiotic-use-livestock-going" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">70 percent</a> of medically important antibiotics in the U.S. are sold for use on livestock and poultry. And more than <a href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrdc.org%2Fexperts%2Favinash-kar%2Ffda-report-shows-antibiotic-use-livestock-sky-high-growing" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">96 percent</a> of those drugs are routinely distributed en masse in feed or water, often to animals that are not sick, to speed up growth and help animals survive crowded and unsanitary conditions on <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/factory-farming" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">industrial farms</a>. When livestock producers use antibiotics again and again, some bacteria become resistant, multiply and spread to threaten humans. It's a practice that is fueling the increasing failure of the drugs we rely on to treat a wide range of infections.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unfortunately, federal policy regulating antibiotics use in agriculture has not stopped this misuse. But U.S. food companies are responding to growing consumer concern and committing to ending the use of medically important antibiotics in their chicken supplies.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Today KFC becomes the newest addition to this leader's circle, announcing that after 2018, the company will only sell chicken raised without antibiotics important to human medicine</b>. This is great news for fried chicken lovers and, most importantly, for public health. The <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Natural Resources Defense Council</a> has been calling on the company to set a meaningful antibiotics policy for its chicken supply since May 2016, when we launched our "Get KFC Chicken Off Drugs" campaign. Allies like U.S. Public Interest Research Groups, Consumers Union and Food Animals Concern Trust have also been pressing the company to clean up its supply chain.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Given that KFC is the nation's largest chicken-on-the-bone quick-service restaurant in the U.S., we know its commitment to responsible antibiotics use will have an impact throughout the chicken industry.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today we give KFC kudos for taking a strong stand that will help to protect the public against the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant infections. We are also glad to know that consumers will be able to verify that the company is keeping its word, since the antibiotics practices of KFC suppliers will be regularly audited under the U.S. Department of Agriculture Process Verified Program. We look forward to updates from KFC on its implementation progress in the year to come.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">KFC's announcement means that <a href="https://medium.com/r/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.qsrmagazine.com%2Fprint%2F104356" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">11 out of the top 15</a> fast-food and -casual restaurant chains in the U.S. have now committed to some level of responsible antibiotics use for their chicken supply. KFC's promise is especially important because the company only purchases a portion of the chickens from any given flock, due to standards for the birds they buy. This means its change in policy will affect a larger number of chickens than what the company purchases itself, since farmers have to raise all the birds in the same barn the same way.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">KFC's new policy is good news for all of us—chicken lovers or not—because drug-resistant infections (or "<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/superbugs" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">superbugs</a>") are becoming increasingly widespread. Conservatively, at least <a href="https://medium.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fdrugresistance%2Fthreat-report-2013%2F" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">two million</a> Americans get antibiotic-resistant infections every year and at least 23,000 die as a direct result, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. <a href="https://medium.com/r/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Finvestigates%2Fspecial-report%2Fusa-uncounted-surveillance%2F" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">A recent Reuters investigation</a> suggests that these numbers significantly underestimate the scope of resistant infections in the U.S. Fortunately, the tremendous momentum we've seen in the chicken industry demonstrates that more responsible antibiotic practices are achievable and affordable. Looking at data from a 2017 WattPoultryUSA survey, the Natural Resources Defense Council estimates that more than 42 percent of the U.S. chicken industry is either under an antibiotics stewardship pledge or has already converted to responsible practices. KFC's new policy will likely move this number even higher.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; line-height: 21px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We are heartened by KFC's decision to join the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. The transition to responsible antibiotics use in the chicken industry has happened in the span of just four years, proving that where there is a will, there is a way. I hope this will inspire other sectors of the livestock industry, like pork and beef producers, to follow suit.</font></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; line-height: 21px;"><em><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/lena-brook" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Lena Brook</a> is a food policy advocate at the <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Natural Resources Defense Council</a>.</font></em></p></div></div></div><div><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></b></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/superbug-pig-farms-2131983846.html"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.ecowatch.com/superbug-pig-farms-2131983846.html</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">John Graham's central role is undermining environmental protection through ‘research' papers based on cost-benefit analysis. John Graham has blocked every rule change that protects the environment including two dozen proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Rules John Graham has fought to have rescinded include reduced arsenic levels in drinking water, reduced pollution from coal burning plants and regulation of fecal waste from industrial factory farms. </span></font></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">{Cost-benefit analysis = only 50 humans out of a thousand will die prematurely from cancer over the next five years and the cost to save the 200,000 thousand or so people that will die prematurely would require entire industry upgrades costing 200 billion dollars or a million per individual saved from premature death and is therefore not economically feasible. Since American aristocracy can and does chose to live far from toxic polluters their chance of dying from cancer due to toxins approaches zero. Must be nice!} </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Factory farmed animals such as cattle, pigs and chickens, live in unnatural and cruel conditions, which do not allow them to live the way nature intended. Factory farmers treat them as commodities rather than living, breathing, sentient beings that feel pain and suffer, just as we do. It's time to make changes, not just because of the harm to our health and environment but because having respect for all beings will help create a more humane world." - Valerie Belt </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wise Use</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ideology has engineered the passage of laws in Missouri and Iowa making it a crime to photograph industrial factory farm animals! </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">{The 2009 swine flu pandemic started at a Smithfield Foods - the world's largest pork packer and hog producer - massive hog-raising operation in Perote, Mexico, in the state of Vera Cruz. A Smithfield subsidiary, Granjas Carrol, raises 950,000 hogs per year. Residents of Perote believed the outbreak had been caused by contamination from pig breeding farms located in the area which polluted the atmosphere and local water bodies and in turn led to the disease outbreak.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A municipal health official stated that preliminary investigations indicated that the disease vector was a type of fly that reproduces in pig waste and that the outbreak was linked to the industrial pig farms. According to residents the organic and fecal waste produced by Granjas Carrol isn't adequately treated. Swarms of flies hovering around waste lagoons transfer respiratory ailments. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mexican health agency Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social has acknowledged that the original carrier for the flu could be the "clouds of flies" that multiply in the Smithfield subsidiary's manure lagoons. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The increased use of antibiotics in animal production has gone hand-in-hand with the development of factory farms - industrial-style livestock operations. Thousands of animals are crammed into the unhygienic, crowded quarters of a typical industrial-style livestock operation, and antibiotics are dispensed constantly through the animals' feed. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twenty-five million pounds of antibiotics are fed to livestock in the United States annually - eight times more than the amount used as human medicine. Six of the 17 classes of antibiotics used to promote growth in animals are also used to treat diseases in humans. A Harvard University study showed that antibiotic-resistant genes found in bacteria infecting humans were identical to some of the same bacteria infecting animals. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production recommended: "Ban the non-therapeutic use of antimicrobials in food animal production to reduce the risk of antimicrobial resistance to medically important antibiotics and other microbials." </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1998 in the nation's largest pig farm, a North Carolina factory farm, an aggressive H3N2 virus of a never-before-described triple hybrid of three viruses - a human virus, a pig virus and a bird virus - was discovered. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Recently evolving intensive farming practice of raising pigs and poultry in adjacent sheds is unsound. Within the swine population, we now have a mammalian-adapted virus that is extremely promiscuous." - Dr. Robert Webster, world's leading flu virus evolution expert</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"If you wanted to create global pandemics, you'd build as many of these factory farms as possible. That's why the development of swine flu isn't a surprise to those in the public health community. In 2003, the American Public Health Association - the oldest and largest in world - called for a moratorium of factory farming because they saw something like this would happen. It may take something as serious as a pandemic to make us realize the real cost of factory farming." - Dr. Michael Greger</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Industrial farming has also been labeled as CAFOs (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations).</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Adrian Gibbs, 75, who collaborated on research that led to the development of Roche Holding AG's Tamiflu drug, said in an interview that he intends to publish a report suggesting the new strain may have accidentally evolved in eggs scientists use to grow viruses and drugmakers use to make vaccines. Gibbs said he came to his conclusion as part of an effort to trace the virus's origins by analyzing its genetic blueprint." - Jason Gale and Simeon Bennett}</span></p>
<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thirteen states have laws making it illegal to criticize produce!</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>