As a consumer, you can help end the misuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture.

Check out "The Meatrix," an entertaining and informative flash animation feature on factory farming. Click the image above or here.

Take the Keep Antibiotics Working Pledge! When you take this pledge you agree to make every effort to purchase poultry, pork, beef, or fish produced without the routine use of antibiotics, such as those labeled "certified organic," "raised without antibiotics," or "no antibiotics administered." Your choices as a consumer will bolster efforts to change public policies that currently allow routine use of antibiotics in animals that aren’t sick.

Spread the Word. Ask friends and family to take the Keep Antibiotics Working Pledge. Click here and print out a paper copy for them, or send them the URL so they can access to the pledge electronically. If your grocer or favorite restaurant doesn't carry meat and poultry raised without the routine use of antibiotics, encourage them to do so.

Eat without Antibiotics. Next time you buy meat or poultry, choose products raised without the routine use of antibiotics, using the Eat Well Consumer Guide. Use it to find retail outlets, restaurants, and producers nationwide that sell meat and poultry raised without the routine use of antibiotics. Or, find them yourself by searching out meat products with labels that say “certified organic,” “raised without antibiotics,” and “no antibiotics administered.” Check out Label Facts, to find a listing of other terms used to label meats and what they mean.

We understand that some people will find it difficult to support a cause working to improve a system in which animals are raised to be eaten. Even if you personally oppose meat and fish consumption, we hope that you recognize the need to protect antibiotics and will consider taking our pledge.

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