Livestock

Letter to FDA re: petition to allow virginiamycin in distillers grains

Joint letter by Keep Antibiotics Working coalition members to FDA regarding virginiamycin/distillers grains petition. KAW comments on the Ferm Solutions, Inc. Food Additive Petition (Animal Use) for Virginiamycin, Docket No. FDA–2010–F–0510.

KAW testimony to the House of Representatives on the public health risk from the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals

Keep Antibiotics Working Statement for the Record, House of Representatives, Health Subcommittee to the Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing on the Public Health Risk from the Use of Antibiotics in Food-Producing Animals.

KAW comments to FDA re distillers grains

KAW comments to FDA docket regarding the use of distillers grains as animal feed.

Statements on NAFTA from Meeting of Livestock Producer Organizations and Consumer Groups, Billings, MT.

KAW comments to USDA FSIS regarding labels and animal raising claims

KAW's comments to USDA-FSIS regarding animal raising claims, including the Raised without Antibiotics (RWA), for the labeling of meat and poultry products..

African Immigrants in Minnesota

A short report on African immigrants living in rural Minnesota.

Antibiotic Resistance: The Unwelcome Guest at Your Holiday Dinner

As the holidays approach, thoughts inevitably turn to an important part of these celebrations - food, and in particular, turkey. We may also wish to consider the health and environmental impacts of how the meat for our holiday is raised.

KAW comments to Montana Department of Agriculture re natural beef program

KAW's recommendations to the Montana Department of Agriculture to include among its certification criteria for Montana Certified Natural Beef a requirement that cattle not be given medically important antibiotics for non-therapeutic purposes.

Recommended antibiotic use standard for South Dakota Certified Natural Beef program

KAW recommends an antibiotic use standard for South Dakota Certified Natural Beef program and urges the South Dakota Department of Agriculture to strongly consider a certification standard that, at minimum, prohibits the use of medically important antibiotics for non-therapeutic purposes.