This is opposing the free market - more gov. control - we are to be a
free country where people can do as they chose limited only by the
market place.
On 5/9/2011 10:04 AM, Thomas Mathews wrote:
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> Posted: 05/ 9/11 08:34 AM ET
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> Dear Secretary Vilsack,
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> I'd like to thank you for tackling some very tough questions from
> audience members at last Wednesday's The Future of Food conference
> <http://washingtonpostlive.com/conferences/food/archive> in
> Washington, DC. Your passion and commitment for farmers and rural
> communities is moving and greatly appreciated. I must admit, however,
> I am extremely disappointed with your response to my question
> <http://www.georgetown.edu/story/vilsack.html> about antibiotic use in
> food animals. I asked, when will the government do something to stop
> producers from squandering 70% of our antibiotics on healthy farm
> animals? You answered with the question, "How do you basically
> legislate that?"
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> Almost everyone in the audience knew the answer. Spontaneously, like a
> Greek chorus, dozens of voices yelled out, "regulate it!" How else are
> we going to save our antibiotics for what they were first intended?
> Without antibiotics modern medicine could literally be taken back
> <http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/46/2/155.abstract> to the days
> when a simple childhood ear infection lead to permanent hearing loss
> and worse cases death.
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> Mr. Secretary, knowing your passion to help the people who live in
> rural communities, there is no larger issue to focus your attention on
> than protecting them from antibiotic-resistant bacteria sourced from
> food animals. Public health experts warn farm workers and the people
> who live near these factory farms face a greater risk
> <http://web.missouri.edu/%7Eikerdj/papers/Indiana%20--%20CAFOs%20%20Communities.htm>
> of farm-acquired antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections than the
> general public.
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> I understand that the USDA's stance, as you stated, is to encourage
> farmers to use antibiotics "judiciously." With all due respect, our
> current predicament is proof that "voluntary" measures don't work and
> now there is no time left to ask industrial producers nicely to stop
> wasting our antibiotics. We must act now. While regulating antibiotics
> may fall under the Food and Drug Administration's jurisdiction, as the
> Secretary of Agriculture, I hope you take the time to find ways to
> support the FDA in "regulating" this gross misuse of modern medicine's
> most precious resource. You may also want to consider standing behind
> the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act
> <http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/03/rep-slaughter-reintroduces-bill-to-limit-antibiotic-use-in-ag/>.
> U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the only microbiologist
> in Congress, recently reintroduced <http://www.louise.house.gov/> the
> bill, which calls for the end of using medically important antibiotics
> on healthy food animals.
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