Dr Cory Couillard

The Food and Drug Administration has been ordered by federal court to further investigate the damaging effects of wide spread use of antibiotics in animal feed on humans.   Antibiotic abuse has caused alarming rates of antibiotic-resistant bacteria also known as super bugs.   Farming groups, drug makers, members of Congress and aggressive lobbyists have allowed past judgments and orders to remain idle and untouched for more than three decades.   It has been argued that the drugs are needed for animals to be healthy in such barbaric and inhumane living conditions. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has concluded the use of antibiotics in our poultry and livestock causes antibiotic-resistant bacteria to flourish since 1977.   No action has been taken since. Recently, Judge Theodore Katz is requiring the FDA to withdraw two of the most common antibiotics that is mixed in the feed of animals.   The judge sided with four consumer safety and advocacy g...