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Supermarket Superbugs
We are facing a huge crisis
Ground-breaking new research has revealed soaring levels of antibiotic resistance on pig and chicken meat from seven major UK supermarkets. Overuse of antibiotics in farming is contributing to deadly drug resistance - a crisis predicted to kill one person every 3 seconds by 2050. You have the power to stop this, by taking action right now. This catastrophe is now unfolding before us, and supermarkets have remained silent for too long. Tell supermarkets to crack down on antibiotic abuse in their supply chains.
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Thank you to everyone who joined our call for supermarkets to take action on antibiotics! In just one week, more than 2400 of you signed our letter to supermarket CEO’s - asking them to tackle the overuse of antibiotics in their supply chains.
Zac Goldsmith MP has tabled an Early Day Motion. The EDM will ask for urgent action from supermarkets to reduce veterinary antibiotic use in their supply chains due to the recognised risks posed to human health by antibiotic misuse in farming. Ask your MP to sign the EDM - find out more here.
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The Alliance To Save Our Antibiotics
Supermarket Superbugs is a campaign coordinated by the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, of which we are a founding member, along with Sustain and Compassion In World Farming.
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These results show how vital it is to encourage farming systems that keep animals healthy without abusing medicines that are crucial to human health. Organic farmers have been doing this successfully for years. Supermarkets must act to protect public health and support farmers to change their farming systems.Peter Melchett Soil Association Policy Director
Our letter to supermarkets
The Alliance to Save our Antibiotics will be writing to supermarket CEOs, asking them to ban the routine, purely preventative use of antibiotics in groups of entirely healthy animals and also ban all preventative use and all group treatments using the 'critically important' antibiotics.
Read the full letter