Louise Slaughter

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Animal Antibiotics: FDA Rules Criticized As Weak As McDonald's

Ben Elgin and Andrew Martin | Bloomberg Businessweek | January 2, 2014

A delegation of public-health advocates filed into the suburban Chicago headquarters of McDonald’s (MCD) last January to deliver a tough message: A decade after the fast-food giant’s groundbreaking promise to reduce medically important antibiotics fed to the animals it buys, the policy had glaring loopholes and was having a questionable impact. Read More »

Definitive Link Confirms Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Transmits From Livestock To Humans

Press Release | Congresswoman Louise M. Slaughter | March 28, 2013

Today, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-25), the only microbiologist in Congress, reacted to a new study that conclusively identified transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from livestock to humans. Currently, MRSA kills more Americans each year than HIV/AIDS. Read More »

Drug-Resistant Bacteria On Chicken: It’s Everywhere And The Government Can’t Help

Maryn McKenna | Wired | December 19, 2013

Two important, linked publications are out today, both carrying the same message: The way we raise poultry in this country is creating an under-appreciated health hazard, and the government structures we depend upon to detect that hazard and protect us from it are failing us. Read More »

FDA Finally Imposes Some Controls On Agricultural Antibiotics. Sort Of.

Maryn McKenna | Wired | December 11, 2013

This morning, the US Food and Drug Administration dropped some long-awaited-but-still-big news regarding the use of antibiotics in meat production. Tl;dr: The FDA asked (but did not compel) the livestock industry to stop using the micro-dose “growth promoter” antibiotics that are widely believed to contribute to increase in antibiotic resistant bacteria in animals, food and humans. Read More »

How Industrial Agriculture Has Thwarted Factory Farm Reforms

Christina M. Russo | Yale Environment 360 | November 19, 2013

In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Robert Martin, co-author of a recent study on industrial farm animal production, explains how a powerful and intransigent agriculture lobby has successfully fought off attempts to reduce the harmful environmental and health impacts of mass livestock production. Read More »

Slaughter Joins Legislation To Overturn Citizens United And Limit Contributions To Super PACs

Press Release | Congresswoman Louise Slaughter | March 26, 2013

Today, Congressman John D. Dingell (D-MI12) announced the introduction of H.R. 1338, the Restoring Confidence in Our Democracy Act, legislation to set contribution limits on donations to Super PACs and establish findings that would allow for the overturning of the flawed Citizens United v. FEC decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. Rep. Louise Slaughter (NY-25) joined Dingell as a co-sponsor of this important legislation. Read More »

VA Steps Up On Women's Health Care

Kathryn Smith | Politico | May 1, 2013

The nation’s imagination may be captured by the expanding combat role of women in the U.S. military. But for the Department of Veterans Affairs, there’s a more pragmatic challenge. Read More »