The Baltimore Sun ran an article on citizens fighting factory farms. The story contains startlingly facts about antibiotic usage on farms. Yet another reason to go vegan.

Some highlights
- In a study of 124 bacteria samples from a factory farm, 98% contained antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
- A University of North Carolina report found that people living near hog farms had a higher incidence of headaches, digestive upsets and other health problems.
- A University of Illinois study found feeding tetracycline to hogs created drug-resistant genes passed on to other bacteria.
- Several studies show that routinely administering antibiotics to pigs in feed leads to an increase in antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria in both pigs and farm workers.

Farmers feed about 13 million pounds of antibiotics to farmed animals that are also prescribed to humans - four times more antibiotics are given to farmed animals than to humans.

Baltimore Sun Article

What can you do:
Write a letter to the editor, thanking them for their coverage of antibiotic overuse on factory farms. Mention how animals are mistreated to create a cheap product.

Email: letters@baltsun.com
Include your full name, address and contact phone number. While there is no word limit, try to keep your letters to 300 words or less. Be polite and respectful in your correspondence.