Thursday, June 30, 2011
feeding America
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Dear Arnold,
I wanted to follow up on my message from earlier this month.
Our fiscal year deadline is tomorrow. We’re only $90,722 away from our $120,983 goal. We must meet this goal if we’re going to keep up with the demand of hungry Americans.
Will you donate $15.00 right now before it is too late? Donate now at:
http://supportfeedingamerica.org/fye30june11
Please don’t put off donating any longer — too many families are counting on us.
Vicki Escarra
President and CEO
Feeding America
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Dear Arnold,
A few weeks ago, I wrote to you about the urgent need to raise $1,060,031 by the end of the fiscal year. So far we have raised $286,208 towards our goal, but as our fiscal year ends we still need your help.
Today, we need you to join supporters across the country and become a Hunger Hero by starting your own Virtual Food Drives.
Start Your Virtual Food Drive now.
Starting a Virtual Food Drive is simple:
Donate
Create your page by setting your fundraising goal and answering a few simple questions.
Ask others to donate using the online tools we give you.
End hunger. As you reach your goal, the money you raise helps Feeding America provide meals for hungry families across the country.
As a Hunger Hero, you’ll do more to fight hunger than you ever thought you could. Every dollar you raise through your Virtual Food Drive will help provide 7 meals to men, women, and children facing hunger in America.
Don’t put this off. Create your Food Drive now and start fighting hunger.
WITH YOUR HELP, WE CAN DO THIS!
Vicki Escarra
President and CEO
Feeding America
P.S. You can also help out by making an immediate donation of $15 right now.
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FROM:
Feeding America - Vicki Escarra, President and CEO
TO:
texas_long_horn2005@yahoo.com
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011 10:15 AM
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Dear Arnold,
I wanted to follow up on my message from earlier this month.
Our fiscal year deadline is tomorrow. We’re only $90,722 away from our $120,983 goal. We must meet this goal if we’re going to keep up with the demand of hungry Americans.
Will you donate $15.00 right now before it is too late? Donate now at:
http://supportfeedingamerica.org/fye30june11
Please don’t put off donating any longer — too many families are counting on us.
Vicki Escarra
President and CEO
Feeding America
Can’t view this message? Read it online
Dear Arnold,
A few weeks ago, I wrote to you about the urgent need to raise $1,060,031 by the end of the fiscal year. So far we have raised $286,208 towards our goal, but as our fiscal year ends we still need your help.
Today, we need you to join supporters across the country and become a Hunger Hero by starting your own Virtual Food Drives.
Start Your Virtual Food Drive now.
Starting a Virtual Food Drive is simple:
Donate
Create your page by setting your fundraising goal and answering a few simple questions.
Ask others to donate using the online tools we give you.
End hunger. As you reach your goal, the money you raise helps Feeding America provide meals for hungry families across the country.
As a Hunger Hero, you’ll do more to fight hunger than you ever thought you could. Every dollar you raise through your Virtual Food Drive will help provide 7 meals to men, women, and children facing hunger in America.
Don’t put this off. Create your Food Drive now and start fighting hunger.
WITH YOUR HELP, WE CAN DO THIS!
Vicki Escarra
President and CEO
Feeding America
P.S. You can also help out by making an immediate donation of $15 right now.
Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe | Donate Now | My Community Center
Questions? If you have any questions about this message or any other
Feeding America issue, please contact us or call 1-800-771-2303.
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Credo
Tell Congress: Stop the dangerous overuse of antibiotics.
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Arnold Schwertman
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CREDO Action | more than a network. a movement.
Tell Congress: Stop the overuse of antibiotics in animals.
Overuse of antibiotics on farms is breeding new strains of drug-resistant bacteria.
Take Action!
Clicking here will automatically add your name to this petition to your Senators and Representative:
"The overuse of antibiotics in livestock contributes to drug-resistant bacteria, posing a significant threat to our health. Pass the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act and stop overuse of antibiotics in healthy animals."
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Dear Arnold,
An outbreak in Germany this month of an antibiotic resistant E. coli strain killed 35 people and infected thousands — serving as a tragic reminder of the necessity of effective antibiotics.1
Yet antibiotics continue to decline in effectiveness — and overuse of antibiotics in the livestock industry is a major reason. Alarmingly, up to 70% of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used on industrial farms in healthy food animals.2
This massive overprescription is breeding new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria like E. coli and MRSA, a type of staph infection that now kills more people in the U.S. every year than AIDS.3
The trend is frightening. But last week, Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act to phase out the rampant overuse by the livestock industry of medically important antibiotics in healthy animals. An identical measure was introduced in the House earlier this year, by Rep. Louise Slaughter, Congress' only microbiologist. Congress should pass this bill without delay.
Tell Congress: Pass the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act and stop the overuse of antibiotics in healthy animals. Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Livestock producers use antibiotics in food and water to promote faster animal growth, what industry calls "nutritional efficiency," but the practice is also used as a way to compensate for the effects of extreme overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in factory farms.
Despite the mounting examples of the dangers of the overuse of antibiotic in the mass-production of poultry, hogs, and livestock, industry groups like the National Pork Producers Council have successfully fought regulation for years.
The FDA has largely failed to stand up to industry. Last year the FDA issued a "draft guidance," a non-binding set of guidelines, for the feeding of antibiotics to food animals. Despite hearing from tens of thousands of CREDO members and other food safety groups, FDA has failed to finalize the guidance to date, let alone issue actual regulations to stop this dangerous practice.
It's up to congress to take action, and halt the overuse of antibiotics in food that is both endangering human life, and allowing industry to maintain cruel conditions for animals.
Tell Congress: Pass the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act and stop the overuse of antibiotics in healthy animals. Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Thank you for fighting for safe and healthy food.
Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets
1. "Scientists fear the over-use of antibiotics in medicine and farming may have led to the deadly E.coli outbreak," The Daily Mail, June 7, 2011.
2. "Most U.S. Antibiotics Fed to Healthy Livestock," Scientific American, January 10, 2001
3. "When Food Kills," New York Times, June 11, 2011
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FROM:
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Arnold Schwertman
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Friday, June 24, 2011 10:56 AM
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CREDO Action | more than a network. a movement.
Tell Congress: Stop the overuse of antibiotics in animals.
Overuse of antibiotics on farms is breeding new strains of drug-resistant bacteria.
Take Action!
Clicking here will automatically add your name to this petition to your Senators and Representative:
"The overuse of antibiotics in livestock contributes to drug-resistant bacteria, posing a significant threat to our health. Pass the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act and stop overuse of antibiotics in healthy animals."
Automatically add your name:
Take action now!
Learn more about this campaign
Dear Arnold,
An outbreak in Germany this month of an antibiotic resistant E. coli strain killed 35 people and infected thousands — serving as a tragic reminder of the necessity of effective antibiotics.1
Yet antibiotics continue to decline in effectiveness — and overuse of antibiotics in the livestock industry is a major reason. Alarmingly, up to 70% of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used on industrial farms in healthy food animals.2
This massive overprescription is breeding new strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria like E. coli and MRSA, a type of staph infection that now kills more people in the U.S. every year than AIDS.3
The trend is frightening. But last week, Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act to phase out the rampant overuse by the livestock industry of medically important antibiotics in healthy animals. An identical measure was introduced in the House earlier this year, by Rep. Louise Slaughter, Congress' only microbiologist. Congress should pass this bill without delay.
Tell Congress: Pass the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act and stop the overuse of antibiotics in healthy animals. Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Livestock producers use antibiotics in food and water to promote faster animal growth, what industry calls "nutritional efficiency," but the practice is also used as a way to compensate for the effects of extreme overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in factory farms.
Despite the mounting examples of the dangers of the overuse of antibiotic in the mass-production of poultry, hogs, and livestock, industry groups like the National Pork Producers Council have successfully fought regulation for years.
The FDA has largely failed to stand up to industry. Last year the FDA issued a "draft guidance," a non-binding set of guidelines, for the feeding of antibiotics to food animals. Despite hearing from tens of thousands of CREDO members and other food safety groups, FDA has failed to finalize the guidance to date, let alone issue actual regulations to stop this dangerous practice.
It's up to congress to take action, and halt the overuse of antibiotics in food that is both endangering human life, and allowing industry to maintain cruel conditions for animals.
Tell Congress: Pass the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act and stop the overuse of antibiotics in healthy animals. Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Thank you for fighting for safe and healthy food.
Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets
1. "Scientists fear the over-use of antibiotics in medicine and farming may have led to the deadly E.coli outbreak," The Daily Mail, June 7, 2011.
2. "Most U.S. Antibiotics Fed to Healthy Livestock," Scientific American, January 10, 2001
3. "When Food Kills," New York Times, June 11, 2011
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