Antibiotics

Obama Campaign Stop at Factory Farm Propaganda Site, Billed as 'Grassroots Event'

Dave Murphy | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Farming, President Obama, Paul R Knapp Animal Learning Center, Cafo, Genetically Engineered Foods, Burger King, Antibiotics in Meat, Barack Obama, Gestation Crates, 2007 Iowa Caucus, Family Farm, Mcdonalds, Iowa State Fair, Factory Farm, Iowa, Antibiotics, Hillary Clinton, Gmos, Election 2012, Video, Green News
Dave Murphy

By showing up at the Paul R. Knapp "Animal Learning Center," President Obama and his staff show that they are out of touch with the needs of rural Iowans and likely to continue to plow down their unsustainable path of supporting the industrial agribusiness lobby.

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Farming Better, Eating Better: On the Ground Solutions From the Growing Green Awards

Peter Lehner | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Gabebrown, Farming, Globalwarming, Sustainableagriculture, Fda, Growinggreenawards, Antibiotics, Ranchers, Meat, Video, Green News
Peter Lehner

Brown succeeds because he loves his work, he loves his land, and he believes that by making his ranch more sustainable, he's doing the right thing, for his family and his faith.

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Prozac in Poultry Is Better Than Penicillin

Michael Greger, M.D. | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Antibiotics, Poultry, Chicken, Prozac, Factory Farming, Healthy Living Health News, Meat Safety, Chicken Food Safety, Public Health, Chicken and Antibiotics, Antibiotics in Chicken, Antibiotics Chicken, Consumer Health, Healthy Living News
Michael Greger, M.D.

While consumers may be more shocked by pink slime or the feeding of Prozac to poultry, the routine feeding of millions of pounds of human antibiotics to chickens presents a much graver threat.

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WATCH: Bug-Like Virus Stabs Germs With Tiny Needle

The Huffington Post | David Freeman | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Video, Bacteriophage, Antibiotics, Salmonella, Coliform, Viruses, Slidepollajax, Germs, Science News

It's the smallest armor-piercing weapon in the biological universe. That's how some have described the microscopic "needle" that a family of odd-l...

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The One Gold Medal We Don't Want to Win: U.S. Leads the Way in Breeding Antibiotic-Resistant Disease

Andrew Gunther | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Norway, E. Coli, Pink Slime, Lftb, World Health Organization, Olympics, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Natural Resources Defense Council, Union of Concerned Scientists, Public Citizen, Fda, Food Animal Concerns Trust, Growth Promoters, Food News
Andrew Gunther

We use more antibiotics per kilogram of meat produced than any other nation in the world -- and we use 12 times as much as the country using the least, Norway.

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Where Have All the Farms Gone?

Karen Steuer | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Pew Environment Group, Animal Antibiotics, Cafos, Cafo, Antibiotics, Nutrient Pollution, Manure, Industrial Agriculture, Antibiotics in Meat, Antibiotics Livestock, Green News
Karen Steuer

Long gone are the iconic scenes of American landscapes dotted with family farms and red barns. Most of these have been replaced by industrialized facilities controlled by large corporations that rely on concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

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Superbug Suit: Antibiotics Victory Will Preserve Medicines for Sick People, Not Healthy Livestock

Peter Lehner | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Factory Farms, Antibiotics, Farming, Fda, Sustainable Food, Livestock, Superbugs, Fda Antibiotics, Antibiotics Livestock 2012, Antibiotics Livestock, Green News
Peter Lehner

While conscientious doctors do their best to limit the use of unnecessary antibiotics, the livestock industry continued its indiscriminate use of these powerful medicines.

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Lynne Peeples

Superbug Suit: FDA To Address Antibiotic Overuse In Livestock, Protect Public Health

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.23.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Organic Farming, Farming, Factory Farming, Nrdc, Mrsa, Antibiotics, Fda, Infections, Green News

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration must act on scientific knowledge that the overuse of antibiotics in food animals has contributed to the rise of ...

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"Too Cuticle for Words"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Cocktail, Nurse, Columnist, Hydrogen Peroxide, Hangnail, Stamford Advocate, Humor, Band-Aid, Thanksgiving, Ginsu Knife, Obituary, Physician, America, Paronychia, Finger, Epsom Salt, Infection, Antibiotics, Doctor, Stamford, Bacitracin, Comedy News
Jerry Zezima

I can just imagine the lead of my obituary: "Jerry Zezima, a longtime newspaper columnist and certified public nuisance, died yesterday of complications from a hangnail. He was 58."

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'Green News Report' - February 28, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Green Jobs, Fracking, Epa, Factory Farms, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Innovation, Green News Report, Pollution, Green Energy, Canada, Climate Scientists, Antibiotic Resistance, Tar Sands, Video, 2012 Presidential Election, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Antibiotics, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Energy, Wisconsin, Fukushima, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Endangered Species, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Japan, Republicans, Lithium-Ion Battery, Arpa-E, Electric Cars, Fox News, Smarter Ideas, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Fox 'News...

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Antibiotics in Your Food: What You Need To Know

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Antibiotics, Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics in Meat, Superbugs, Green News
Marcia G. Yerman

During the height of the cold weather months, people count on antibiotics to fight bacterial infections. What they may not know is that current overuse of antibiotics is making bacteria more rapidly resistant to "essential antibiotics."

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Bacterial Ice-9?

Dr. Jeffrey H. Toney | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Antibiotics, Microbiology, Biology, Cat's Cradle, Ice-9, Science News
Dr. Jeffrey H. Toney

The idea of Ice-9, although fictional, has always fascinated me. Its properties are so powerful, so influential, that one "seed crystal" can direct its entire surroundings, freezing oceans.

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Part II: Antibiotics Injected Directly Into Eggs and Other Big Pharma Secrets

Martha Rosenberg | Posted 04.18.2012

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Martha Rosenberg

It was not a great surprise that the FDA's new cephalosporin livestock rules have the Agribusiness Seal of Approval. It was Big Pharma and Agribusiness lobbying that killed its stronger cephalosporin rules issued four years after.

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Lynne Peeples

Going Hog Wild: Weaning Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs Out Of Pork

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Staph Infection, Organic Food, Livestock, Agriculture, Superbugs, Mrsa, Pigs, Cafo, Antibiotics, Pork, Green News

After nearly succumbing to an antibiotic-resistant infection contracted from one of his hogs, Russ Kremer went cold turkey. He exterminated his diseas...

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What Are Superbugs Doing In Antarctica?

Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Antibiotics, Antibiotic Resistance, Antarctica Bacteria, Video, E. Coli Antarctica, E-Coli, E. Coli Outbreak, E. Coli, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Green News

From Russell McLendon and Mother Nature Network: Escherichia coli bacteria, better-known as E. coli, are common in the lower intestines of humans. ...

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Will Yours Be a Sustainable Super Bowl Sunday?

Andrew Gunther | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Healthy Food, Healthy Eating, National Football League, Will Witherspoon, Superbowl, Sustainable Food, Cage Free, Football, Anima Welfare, Obesity, Superbowl Sunday, Naturally Raised, Pasture Based, Pasture-Raised, Shire Gate Farm, Super Bowl, Sustainable, Tennessee Titans, Nfl, Unhealthy Foods, Animal Welfare Approved, Free Roaming, Antibiotics, Fitness, Grassfed Beef, High Welfare, Food News
Andrew Gunther

No one takes health and fitness more seriously than today's top football players. So isn't it kind of absurd that as we watch Sunday's game we will all be bombarded by advertisements for some of the unhealthiest junk food imaginable?

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Treating a World Without Antibiotics?

Stanley M. Bergman | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Bacteria, Antibiotics Resistance, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Science News
Stanley M. Bergman

Because of the overuse of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance is developing all of the time. With microbial evolution outpacing human invention, a nightmare scenario is possible. And this isn't just science fiction.

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Lynne Peeples

Antibiotic Use In Farm Animals Still Broadly Unaddressed Despite 'Fanfare' For FDA Move

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Organic Farming, Infectious Diseases, Livestock, Superbugs, Mrsa, Antibiotics, Factory Farms, Fda, Cephalosporins, Green News

The Food and Drug Administration's latest move concerning the use of antibiotics in farm animals garnered a good deal of praise last week, but public ...

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Evolutionary Lessons From Superbugs

James A. Shapiro | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistant, Animal Feed, Infectious Disease, Multiple Drug Resistance, Metagenomics, Sudden Evolutionary Change, Antibiotics, US Surgeon General, Fda, Plasmid, FDA Regulation, Horizontal DNA Transfer, Science News
James A. Shapiro

The genetics and genomics of bacterial antibiotic resistance and virulence teach us some fundamentally important lessons about evolution. They also pose some significant challenges to scientific explanation.

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There's A 25% Chance Your Ground Meat Has A Potentially Fatal Bacteria

Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Antibiotic Use, Antibiotic Resistance, Ground Meat, Video, Ground Meat Bacteria, Antibiotics, Bacteria, Mark Bittman, Antibiotics in Meat, Food News

Mark Bittman has yet another fascinating column in the New York Times, this time on the prevalence of bacteria in meat. He discusses a study that anal...

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Lynne Peeples

FDA Takes A 'Step Backwards' On Antibiotic Resistance Issue, Raises More Public Health Concerns

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Animal Feed, Livestock, Nrdc, Agriculture, Mrsa, Antibiotics, Food Safety, Fda, Green News

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday its withdrawal of a decades-old proposal to limit the use of antibiotics in animal feed, a mo...

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Stopping Superbugs: Time for Congress and Industry to Catch Up With American Consumers

David Wallinga, M.D. | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Sustainable Agriculture, Animal Antibiotics, Sustainable Food, Antibiotics in Meat, Chipotle, Farms, Green News
David Wallinga, M.D.

Today, American farmers raising animals without antibiotics do so despite policies that point them in the opposite direction. With this handicap, who will win out in the race to feed the global consumer who increasingly wants their meat antibiotic free?

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Lynne Peeples

Do You Know Where Your Turkey's Been?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Holidays, Green Holiday, Turkey, Thanksgiving, Factory Farms, The Infection Loop, Fda, Antibiotic Resistance, Organic Food, Mrsa, Superbugs, Turkey Antibiotics, Louise Slaughter, Antibiotics, Usda, Food and Drug Administration, US Department of Agriculture, Green News

As families across America adorn their dinner tables with plump, juicy turkeys this Thursday, they've likely given little thought to what their future...

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Why Some Bacteria Are Able To Fight Off Antibiotics

| Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Antibiotic Resistance, Video, Antibiotics, Bacteria Antibiotic Resistance, Bacteria Antibiotics, Oxidative Stress Bacteria, Bacteria Antibiotic Resistant, Drug Resistant Bacteria, Healthy Living News

By Katherine Harmon (Click here for the original article) The superbug MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) has provoked fear in doc...

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Generation Rx: Is Overmedication Endangering Our Kids' Health?

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Generation RX, Antibiotics, Pediatrics, Prescriptions, Children Medication, Doctors Antibiotics, Antiobiotics, Overmedication, Over-Medicated Children, Over-Medication, Children Overmedication, Parents News
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff

These new studies once again underscore the necessity for us as parents to communicate with our pediatricians and not be afraid to ask questions when a prescription is offered.

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