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"Madam President, the link between the overuse of antibiotics on farms and the growth in resistant bacteria was put starkly by the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Liam Donaldson, who said that every inappropriate use of antibiotic in animals is potentially signing the death warrant for a future patient.
With a range of medical organisations raising the alarm about the spread of antibiotic resistance, it is incumbent upon European policymakers to introduce strict regulation of their use, both in humans and in animals. At present, antibiotics can be prescribed to all animals on a farm if only one animal is sick, and can be given to animals that show no sign of disease but are merely at risk of catching an infection. We are pleased that the new regulations will ban this sort of routine use of antibiotics.
As Greens, we are determined that the use of antibiotics should not be a substitute for good animal husbandry. When animals are kept in insanitary conditions in overcrowded sheds, their health inevitably suffers and infections spread more easily. Less intensive farming practices would ensure better lives for animals, as well as reducing the demand for antibiotics."@en1
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