Pew Charitable Trusts
Human Health and Industrial Farming
It's not chicken feed. Antibiotic resistance adds billions to health care costs.

To reform health care we need to reduce health care costs, and that includes reducing the drug-resistant diseases that cost our country billions. This means stopping the overuse of the antibiotics our families rely on. Many industrial farms routinely feed these drugs to chickens and livestock that aren't sick, which promotes the development of deadly antibiotic-resistant infections.

Learn more about how antibiotic use in food production threatens human health

Find out more about the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act

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The Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming is working to protect human health by eliminating the overuse of antibiotics in food animals. We are joining the American Medical Association, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, and countless others in this effort that affects public health. Learn more

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Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America


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