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","updated_on":null,"sidebar_action":"","hide_hero_image":false,"sidebar_action_query_string":""},"helper_people_group":{"title":"Authors","entities":[{"type":"dynamic","dynamic_person":{"site":4,"people":"11329"},"information":{"name":"","image":null,"role":"","biography":"","contact":{"twitter":"","facebook":"","email":"","phone":""}}},{"type":"dynamic","dynamic_person":{"site":4,"people":"200"},"information":{"name":"","image":null,"role":"","biography":"","contact":{"twitter":"","facebook":"","email":"","phone":""}}}]},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Grocery shopping for Thanksgiving can be overwhelming. When it comes to turkey, you\u2019ll need to figure out how big the bird should be, sift through a slew of product labels and brands, and try to stay within your budget.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nHere\u2019s why it\u2019s worth spending a little more time and maybe a little more money to purchase a turkey raised without overusing antibiotics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nAntibiotic resistance is a global public health crisis.<\/b> Whenever antibiotics are used, and especially when they are overused, bacteria adapt and develop resistance. Multi-drug-resistant bacteria, which can cause dangerous and even deadly infections in humans, are becoming more common. As resistant bacteria spread, antibiotics lose effectiveness, which can complicate medical procedures like cancer chemotherapy and surgeries by increasing infection risk. Despite the critical importance of antibiotics to human health, nearly two thirds of the medically important antibiotics sold in the United States go to meat production. These miracle drugs should only be used to treat sick animals, but many industrial farms overuse antibiotics to compensate for an increased risk of disease caused by unsanitary, overcrowded, and stressful living conditions.<\/span>\r\n\r\nIndustrial turkey production is the most intensive user of antibiotics.<\/b> In 2020, turkey producers purchased more medically important antibiotics per pound of meat produced than any other major sector of the meat industry.[1] <\/span>According to the <\/span>Food and Drug Administration<\/span><\/a>, turkey was the only major meat production sector for which antibiotic sales increased from 2019-2020, the most recent years for which data is available.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nResearch shows that meat raised without antibiotics is less likely to harbor drug-resistant bacteria: <\/b>For example, a <\/span>2019 study<\/span><\/a> found that conventionally raised poultry harbored nearly twice as much multidrug-resistant Salmonella as meat from poultry raised without antibiotics.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nNow that you understand the problem, here\u2019s what you can do to contribute to the solution.<\/b> Refer to the labeling guide in our recent report, <\/span>Superbugs in Stock<\/span><\/i><\/a>, to choose a turkey with a label indicating that it\u2019s been raised without antibiotic overuse. The ubiquity of Thanksgiving turkey presents an opportunity to spread the word, so encourage your friends and family to also purchase turkey produced without antibiotic overuse. If you\u2019re hosting Thanksgiving dinner, let your guests know why you\u2019re serving turkey that\u2019s been raised responsibly. Meat is often on the menu for winter holidays as well, so use Thanksgiving to start a trend of buying meat raised without overusing antibiotics.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n[1] \u00a0These figures were determined by dividing the weight of medically important antibiotics sold to each major meat sector in 2020 by the corresponding gross production weight of that meat in the U.S. in 2020. The data was sourced from a USDA report on <\/span>chicken and poultry production<\/span><\/a>, another USDA report on <\/span>beef and swine production<\/span><\/a> and an FDA report on <\/span>veterinary antibiotic sales.<\/span><\/a><\/em>","":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_large_image","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_large_image":{"width":"wide","image":"","caption_override":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"","":null}}]},"yoast_head":"\nPurchase turkey raised without overusing antibiotics this Thanksgiving<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s worth spending a little more time and maybe a little more money to purchase a turkey raised without overusing antibiotics.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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