Companies like Perdue and Tyson Foods are reducing or eliminating antibiotic use in chickens. Pork and beef producers need to keep up
Every parent wants to be the most powerful proponents that she or he can be when it comes to their children’s health. As a pair of moms who also happen to be longtime public interest advocates – both of us fighting to stem the rise of antibiotic resistance – we can’t help but have our children in the front of our minds when we go to work each day.
Much like climate change, antibiotic resistance seems invisible until it affects us personally – at which point it becomes all too real. For Lena, this reality hit hard in the early years of her older daughter’s life. Whether her daughter was battling bacterial infections in her ears, sinuses or throat, all too often the first-line antibiotic would fail just days after treatment ended, and symptoms would return and persist. Sometimes it would take three or four rounds of treatment before she was on the mend, even for something as seemingly easy-to-treat as strep throat.
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Source: Guardian Environment