Healthy Farms, Healthy Families Kick Off Meeting

Do you care about having a healthy food system? Or are you concerned about factory farms?

We have an opportunity right now to prevent antibiotic resistance. Currently, 80 percent of antibiotics in the United States are used on factory farms. Livestock producers use these drugs routinely, not to treat sick animals, but for growth promotion and disease prevention, a practice known as sub-therapeutic use. So the next time you or I get sick, antibiotics may not work.

We’re asking our City Council members to pass a resolution asking Senator Patty Murray to sign on as a co-sponsor on the Prevention of Antibiotic Resistance Act (PARA).

So please join us at our kick-off meeting on January 21st at 7pm. Find out more about the campaign and what you can do to help. With your support, we can get our elected officials to speak up for the preservation of this valuable medical practice.

RSVP to let us know you can make it, and bring a friend!