PEW Campaign on Human Health & Industrial Farming

Surely relevant to #iCreate's  #CommunityGarden, #FarmersMarkets, #locavore & #sustainability interests. In lieu of hunting down meeting notes, badgering officers for grant updates, research a piece on music outreach or the role music in childhood development, today I'm going for low hanging fruit on the road of least-resistance. Tomorrow perhaps Off-Center (our ABQ partner, even though they never mention us either on website or in newsletter) and local iCreate updates. Now, back to Occupy Colleges' March 1 Day of Action and the virtual sit-in

Welcome to the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming!  If you have not taken action yet on the Change.org petition, FDA: Take Measures to Preserve Effectiveness of Cephalosporins, please do so now. We are urging the FDA to finalize a rule that will limit the use of a class of antibiotics in food animal production. This restriction is a victory for human health as it will help ensure that cephalosporins continue to work to treat life-threatening infections today and in the future. However, there is still more that needs to be done to curtail the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in food animal production. To keep you up-to-date, we will send you a monthly newsletter with breaking news and other important information on this issue. Be sure to look out for your first edition soon! Additionally, there are other ways to stay involved with our campaign: Join Moms for Antibiotic Awareness, a project of the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, which is working for more judicious use of antibiotics in food animal production. Since our launch in May 2011, more than 23,000 mothers, fathers, grandparents, and others concerned about their family's health have joined. We are trying to reach 75,000 by our year anniversary – please consider joining today!   Like us on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. Visit SaveAntibiotics.org for regular updates. Thank you again for taking a stand against the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in food animal production.  We look forward to your continued support!   Forward to a friend

The Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming is working to save antibiotics by phasing out the overuse of the drugs in food animal production. We work with public health and food industry leaders, veterinarians, agricultural interests, academics and citizens groups who share our objective of preserving the integrity of antibiotics as a means of protecting human and animal health.   © 1996-2012 The Pew Charitable Trusts. All rights reserved. | Legal Notice | Privacy Policy