tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9437268.post7349669843256950842..comments2024-02-03T07:12:06.620-05:00Comments on U.S. Food Policy: Limiting nontherapeutic antibiotics in meatusfoodpolicyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17098394318544229984noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9437268.post-57983462613108529502012-02-20T11:51:58.209-05:002012-02-20T11:51:58.209-05:00Please could you please let me know what is the si...Please could you please let me know what is the situation with the Bill limiting nontherapeutic antibiotics in meat? Has it been passed? thanks, a lot!Milahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06866452857370821617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9437268.post-1796740420736170002010-02-16T14:08:52.400-05:002010-02-16T14:08:52.400-05:00do you think use of non therapeutic antibiotic sh...do you think use of non therapeutic antibiotic should be banned in farm animals?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9437268.post-66732346186864367482009-05-16T01:18:00.000-04:002009-05-16T01:18:00.000-04:00Can you tell us what Antibiotics you are referring...Can you tell us what Antibiotics you are referring to? Is is my understanding that Zero antibiotics used in human health are used for sub-therapeutic growth promotion in farm animals. Also what about antibiotic resistant genes found in normal soil bacteria? Are we going to ban soil or keep our livestock off soil?<br />Thanks you.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02613335435806838386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9437268.post-52991884002539799102009-03-31T16:04:00.000-04:002009-03-31T16:04:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9437268.post-18840220790934196902009-03-31T12:36:00.000-04:002009-03-31T12:36:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9437268.post-78857693702572475162009-03-21T14:53:00.000-04:002009-03-21T14:53:00.000-04:00Thank you for this article. We need to express our...Thank you for this article. We need to express our support for them. I have written to Senator Edwards and Representative Slaughter as well as to my Congressional critters:<BR/><BR/>I am a member of the NHNPC and an independent pork producer. I strongly disagree with the National Pork Producers Council (NNPC) position on antibiotics (and a lot of other things). As a farmer, a consumer, a parent and a citizen I urge you to ban the sub-therapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock (same for humans). This is especially imporant with types of antibiotics used to treat human diseases.<BR/><BR/>Note that I am not one of your constituents, I'm in neighboring Vermont, but this issue is very important and I have previously written to my representative and senators about this. I write to you because I heard that you are introducing legislation to band the use of antibiotics. I urge you on with this important issue. I realize you will get a lot of opposition from the NNPC with their high paid Big Ag lobbyists but please get this bill through.<BR/><BR/>While I have your attention, I urge you to also oppose the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) and defund it. It is for the benefit of Big Ag but will burden small producers. Virtually all food born illness comes after the animals leave the farm, introduced at the processing facility or later. If Big Ag wants NAIS, which they do for foreign marketing purposes, then they should be the ones to fund it. NAIS should not be force on small farmers - we don't need foreign markets, we aren't the source of the disease and NAIS is an inefficient, burdensome non-solution. See http://NoNAIS.org<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/><BR/>-Walter Jeffries<BR/>Sugar Mountain Farm<BR/>Pastured Pigs & Sheep<BR/>in the mountains of Vermont<BR/>http://SugarMtnFarm.comWalter Jeffrieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12720110642967540506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9437268.post-59968753280432385032009-03-18T18:11:00.000-04:002009-03-18T18:11:00.000-04:00Thanks for posting this, Parke. The other lobby th...Thanks for posting this, Parke. The other lobby that is going to have a lot to say about it is the pharmaceutical industry. The 70 percent of all antibiotics used for non-therapeutic use in livestock production statistic is actually just referring to use in cows, hogs, and poultry. According the UCS, total non-therapeutic use in livestock production is closer to 78% of all antibiotics consumed in the U.S., if I'm reading the numbers correctly (found in the report, "Hogging It."). This of course is just an estimate, and only one of maybe two or three estimates out there. There is no national tracking system for antibiotic consumption making it really difficult to have a true understanding of what the breakdown in numbers actually are. But suffice to say whether non-therapeutic livestock use accounts for 78%, 70%, or 30% of all uses, the pharmaceutical companies have a significant stake in the outcome of this legislation.<BR/><BR/>The last time the bill was introduced (2007) it didn't even make it out of committee. Possibly with the many recent food safety scares, it will make it a bit further this time, but I'm skeptical. However, I think one thing the introduction of this bill will do is shine a light on (or continue to shine a light on) the unsustainable production methods currently relied upon in livestock agriculture. And if this exact bill doesn't make it through congress, possibly something slightly less restrictive but still going in the right direction will.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com