Antibiotic Scorecard: 1 Easy Way to Change the World for Your Child

Your choice of chain restaurants could help make a profound difference. Thanks to the help of some impressive organizations, we now have an antibiotic Scorecard to help us along the way. Antibiotic overuse is resulting in a crisis of antibiotic resistance and is changing the microbiome of our children – the vibrant microscopic world that lives on, in, and around their growing bodies. Antibiotic overuse makes all of us less safe, and children are among the most vulnerable. Already, more than 2 million Americans get an antibiotic-resistant infection each year. Around 23,000 people will die from these infections. Many people don’t know that the great majority of unnecessary antibiotic use is for increasing the weight gain of meat or poultry animals or otherwise giving antibiotics routinely to animals that are not sick. 70-80% of all antibiotics given in the US are given this way! In factory farms, not doctor’s offices or hospitals. Antibiotic Scorecard: A Lever for Change American’s eat out. A lot. And the top 25 restaurant chains have huge influence over how animals are raised. Farmers grow what these restaurants buy. The choices that families make when eating out could change the game faster and more effectively than any government policy. We can make the routine use of antibiotics in animals a bad business decision. To this end, a group of public interest organizations have joined together to create an antibiotic Scorecard. You can read their whole Chain Reaction repo...
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