The following options are all simple ways you can help protect our antibiotics.

• Attention PTA/PTO Members: We have started working with numerous local, regional and state PTA chapters by attending meetings, conferences and health fairs! Email us if you are interested in learning more on how we can raise awareness in your community.
  
• Visit SaveAntibiotics.org for guidance on how to write a letter to the editor or other opinion pieces on this issue for your local newspaper.
  
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Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act

Imagine your child went to a school that was so crowded and dirty that you had to sprinkle antibiotics on their cereal just to keep them from getting sick. You wouldn’t stand for it, would you? Yet that is what’s happening on industrial farms every day: Chickens, turkeys, cows, and pigs are raised in such poor conditions that the only way to keep them from getting sick is to put antibiotics in their daily feed.

What’s worse is that these practices threaten our health. By steadily feeding antibiotics to food animals, industrial farms have become breeding grounds for drug-resistant bacteria that can end up in our food, air, water, and eventually in us.

Fortunately, Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY) has introduced the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (H.R. 1150). Her bill would restrict the most dangerous antibiotic practices and help prevent the spread of drug-resistant superbugs. It has been endorsed by the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and other health and medical leaders.

Please ask your representative to take a stand for public health and co-sponsor the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act.

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