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Industry allies continue to reject facts about antibiotic use in animal agriculture

July 28, 2011

Publication: NRDC Switchboard

Author: Avinash Kar

This week, an industry-leaning commentary with an academic veneer appeared on the Dairyherd Network, repeating industry arguments that rely on inaccurate facts that have been rebutted by scientists and public health and medical organizations to argue against banning the unnecessary and risky agricultural overuse of life-saving antibiotics.

The Dairyherd blog would be more credible if it was not so inaccurate.

The blog reiterates industry's often repeated claim that there is no scientific evidence linking antibiotic use in livestock and increased resistance in humans. This is patently not the case. A long list of scientific, medical, and health organizations and authorities concur that there is ample scientific evidence that the overuse and misuse of antibiotics on healthy animals is a major factor in the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and that it is contributing to public health risks.

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