Bill would restrict antibiotics in food animals
Support this bill. There is nothing wrong with giving some antibiotics to sick animals—but that’s not how they are used. Antibiotics are mixed in with animal feed preventatively. The overuse of antibiotics leads to antibiotic resistant bacteria that will affect both humans and animals.
In other words, because the feed lots are so crowded and unhealthy that they think it is necessary to preventatively dose all the healthy animals with antibiotics, our antibiotics may not work when we need them to.
And this is just the portion we’re sure about. Other things—like the effects of lingering antibiotics on our food and watersupply are only speculative. But they can’t be good.
Definitely support! Makes me glad to be a vegetarian when I read about stuff like this.
