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Companies doing what the FDA won’t: Banning antibiotics for livestock

by Danielle Nierenberg on March 22, 2007
On Tuesday, the U.S. food service giant Bon Appétit Management Company announced that it will start sourcing only all-natural, antibiotic-free beef. Store representatives said the move was prompted by concerns that "the heavy use of [antibiotics] in agriculture has resulted in [their] declining effectiveness against common bacterial infections in humans."

Pandemic preparedness needs to include small farmers

by Danielle Nierenberg on March 14, 2007
On March 12, six Asian countries (China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam) participated in a simulation to predict what might happen if an easily transmissible form of avian flu started spreading among humans. Because these nations share borders and a history of migration, a pandemic could move easily within the region.