Opinions
Opinions
| Date | Opinions | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 2012 |
"Two important events in recent weeks a regulatory guideline and a federal court decision have raised hopes that progress can be made in curbing the widespread use of antibiotics ... " |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 13, 2012 |
''Fatter cows, sicker people'' "The FDA has restricted the use of a minor antibiotic used by the meat industry. It's a small step to counter the widespread overuse of antibiotics on healthy animals, which helps create antibiotic-resistant bacteria that harms humans." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 10, 2012 |
"Last week, the Food and Drug Administration took a small step toward reducing the routine use of antibiotics in livestock, a practice that creates drug-resistant pathogens and threatens the effectiveness of some antibiotics in human medicine." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 7, 2012 |
"A nonprofit research center based in Phoenix analyzed 80 brands of beef, pork, chicken and turkey in five cities -- and found that 47 percent contained staphylococcus aureus, which can cause everything from skin infections to pneumonia to blood poisoning. Of the staph germs detected, half were antibiotic-resistant." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 6, 2012 |
''The F.D.A.’s Token Gesture'' "After withdrawing its own 34-year-old request/promise to restrict the routine use of penicillin and tetracyclines in farm animal feed, the F.D.A. made it crystal clear that, despite the increasingly common threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in supermarket meat, it would leave the regulating up to industry itself." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 6, 2012 |
''FDA takes step in right direction'' "Wednesday's announcement that federal drug regulators will now require U.S. farmers and ranchers to limit their use of certain antibiotics in cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys is a long overdue positive ruling that should help reduce the growing threat that antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections pose to humans. Welcome as the edict is, it does not go far enough. Additional restrictions or, preferably, bans on their use are necessary to properly safeguard public health." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 6, 2012 |
''Antibiotics and agriculture'' "Federal drug regulators Wednesday announced new rules requiring farmers and ranchers to restrict their use of a critical class of antibiotics known as cephalosporins in cattle, pigs, chickens and turkeys." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 6, 2012 |
"No act of Congress, no executive edict, no environmental permit or court ruling, has the power to overturn the laws of nature. Two recent news items illustrate why this matters." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 6, 2011 |
"Scientists have warned for decades that routinely feeding antibiotics to poultry and livestock would lead to new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 24, 2011 |
''The end of the era of antibiotics'' "For decades, we have lived in blissful ignorance of the infectious diseases that tormented earlier generations. Just take a pill, or get a shot, and they will go away. But the miracle drugs are starting to fail, even for common diseases - and we have ourselves to blame." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 19, 2011 |
"To me, the biggest issue is not whether pigs are raised organically or "naturally"; it's whether they're raised well." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jun 2, 2011 |
''The High Cost of Cheap Meat'' "The point of factory farming is cheap meat, made possible by confining large numbers of animals in small spaces. Perhaps the greatest hidden cost is its potential effect on human health." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 12, 2010 |
''Antibiotics, meat a risky mix'' "Federal regulators have tip-toed around the issue of antibiotics in the nation's meat supply for years." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 12, 2010 |
''Our view on food safety: To protect humans, curb antibiotic use in animals'' "Antibiotics are modern wonder drugs, but their weakness is that they can gradually put themselves out of business." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 8, 2010 |
''Resistant to urgent action'' "Antibiotics, it’s what’s for dinner. Antibiotics, the other white meat. Antibiotics, it’s whatever the poultry industry’s slogan is." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 6, 2010 |
''Antibiotics and meat don't mix'' "For the American public's health, it's time for the meat industry to stop administering the drugs preventively but only to animals already ill." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 28, 2010 |
''Ban Antibiotics for Healthy Food Animals'' "Last year, an estimated 65,000 people in the U.S. were killed by drug-resistant infections—almost the number of people who succumbed to breast cancer and prostate cancer combined." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 18, 2010 |
"Now that Congress has pushed through its complicated legislation to reform the health insurance system, it could take one more simple step to protect the health of all Americans." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 6, 2010 |
''The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is getting serious about the threat routine use of antibiotics in livestock poses to human health.'' |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 3, 2010 |
''Pearls before swine: It's time to cut the use of antibiotics in farm animals'' "Everybody knows that it is possible to have too much of a good thing -- and that is true also of antibiotic drugs, the great lifesavers of modern medicine." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 13, 2010 |
''Healthy livestock, sick people'' "Year after year, legislation intended to preserve the effectiveness of available antibiotics by limiting their use in livestock is shot down." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 6, 2010 |
"Until three months ago, Thomas M. Dukes was a vigorous, healthy executive at a California plastics company." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 3, 2010 |
"One of the profound blessings in the age of modern medicine is that, when infection sets in, doctors can draw upon an array of antibiotics to knock the germs for a loop. Just imagine how it would have been for our ancestors, for whom a simple cut or bad tooth could mean "blood poisoning" and death." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 15, 2009 |
"The American meat industry is addicted to antibiotics. This dates to the late 1940s, when farmers discovered that antibiotics could do more than just cure disease. Antibiotics regularly mixed into feed could help animals avoid common illnesses -- and thus grow faster as well as better withstand the crowded and sometimes unsanitary conditions on factory farms." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| May 8, 2009 |
''Piggish Capitalism Endangers Us All'' "Even if you don't dig on swine, it has become impossible to avoid them." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
