KIDS’ SCHOOL LUNCHES NOW SAFER
For years, America’s schoolchildren have been eating beef, chicken and other foods that would have been rejected as substandard even by fast food chains. Thanks in part to our advocacy, the U.S.D.A....
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Fighting The High Cost Rx Drugs
DRIVING UP THE COST OF RX DRUGSWe all know prescription drugs cost too much. That’s partly because brand-name drug companies have been paying off generic drug makers to delay competition and keep...
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Stop the Overuse of Antibiotics
When big farming operations discovered that giving antibiotics to healthy animals could prevent illness while making them fatter, faster, many of them started putting antibiotics into the daily feed of...
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Weak Medicine
Released by: NHPIRG Education Fund Release date: Wednesday, September 10, 2014Weak Medicine NHPIRG.pdfMillions of Americans rely on antibiotics every year to treat infections, but unfortunately, many...
View ArticleSome Good, Some Bad in Obama Executive Order on Protecting Antibiotics
For Immediate Release Thursday, September 18, 2014Michael RussoToday, President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order – Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria. While the order takes several...
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Prescription For Change
Released by: NHPIRG and Consumers Union Release date: Thursday, October 23, 2014Prescription For Change.pdfA pillar of modern medicine, antibiotics save millions of lives each year. Due to their...
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Change the Market - Support Antibiotic-free Restaurants
Public HealthThese restaurants have taken action to transition away from serving meat raised with antibiotics. The more antibiotics are overused, such as in the production of meat, the more bacteria...
View ArticleSome Good, Some Bad in Obama Administration Plan to Protect Antibiotics
Friday, March 27, 2015Today, the National Task Force for Combatting Resistant Bacteria released a five-year action plan to tackle the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. While the plan will take...
View ArticleVictory: Subway Commits to Help Save Antibiotics
Tuesday, October 20, 2015Steve BlackledgeToday, Subway announced its plan to phase out antibiotics use from its entire meat supply. Their commitment begins with chicken in 2016, expands to turkey in...
View ArticleA Sub-stantial Achievement
Thursday, October 22, 2015Steve BlackledgeWe did it. Two days back, on October 20, Subway announced its plan to phase out antibiotics from its entire meat supply.This huge victory is no small...
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Buying Guide: Meat Raised Without Antibiotics
Public HealthAntibiotic resistance is a serious and growing threat to public health. The World Health Organization, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and experts across the globe warn that...
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Buying Guide: Meat Raised Without Antibiotics
Release date: Friday, November 13, 2015Buying Guide.pdfAntibiotic resistance is a serious and growing threat to public health. The World Health Organization, Center for Disease Control and Prevention,...
View ArticleMedical Professionals Call for Action to Save Antibiotics
For Immediate Release Wednesday, November 18, 2015Steve BlackledgeDear Major Restaurant Chain,As doctors, nurses, and medical professionals, we are deeply concerned about the threat to public health...
View ArticleNot-so-secret-Santas in Congress Using Spending Bill To Roll Back Health,...
Monday, November 30, 2015Ed MierzwinskiWith spending authorization for the federal government set to end on December 11, Congressional leaders are working with powerful special interests on their...
View ArticleThe Phantom, and Other Menaces
Monday, December 7, 2015It is remarkable – and deeply troubling – that a post-antibiotic era is no longer hypothetical.In the months since we launched our campaign to stop the overuse of antibiotics on...
View ArticlePredictable Problems in the FDA Annual Report
Tuesday, December 15, 2015In 2013,the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) put forward a weak plan to address the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture. After decades of warnings from scientists and...
View ArticleIt keeps getting better
Wednesday, December 16, 2015Steve BlackledgeBy next summer, all of the chicken served on Papa John's pizzas and poppers will be raised without antibiotics. The pizza chain's announcement adds them to a...
View ArticleAll I want for Christmas is responsibly-raised meat.
Monday, December 21, 2015My first Christmas list was probably illegible; my second almost certainly included a real live pet baby seal. Since around age 10, I have no recollection of writing any...
View ArticleProgress in 2015 and hope for the new year
Wednesday, December 23, 2015In May, I wrote that “2015 has been a big year for chicken.” Little did I know it would only get bigger. Several huge restaurant chains jumped in to help stop the overuse of...
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Nicely Done, Attorneys General
Wednesday, January 27, 2016Steve BlackledgeCongress should soon put the finishing touches on updating a law — the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) — designed to reduce our exposure to toxic...
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