Healthy Food Action

Acting together to make health the future of food and farming.

[Healthy Food Action @HFAction]

U.S. beef and pork industries are using antibiotics less, not more wisely -- at least since 2017. As my colleague blogged, Big Beef's customers like @McDonald's must do better, as well. https://t.co/BBJNYx9a7X

[Healthy Food Action @HFAction]

After rising for two straight years, sales of human antibiotics for use in U.S. livestock now our nearly double those used in human patients. https://t.co/JxV6Ji3mYH

[Healthy Food Action @HFAction]

Sales for U.S. pigs and cattle are the reason for the overall rise. Pig sales alone are up 28% since 2017. Cattle are up 8%. @Food_Dr #AAW2021 https://t.co/O7ryBOM5JY

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

Check out how the biggest US-based restaurants compare to each other, and compared to what they should be doing to protect our shrinking supply of antibiotics that work to combat infections! @PIDSociety @IDSAInfo @aetiology @statnews @CIDRAP @GlobalEcoGuy

[Amy Brown @Fin_Justice]

Proud that @NRDCFood is a part of this amicus brief with @RuralCo @IACupdate in support of debt relief for BIPOC farmers. Racism in the food system runs deep and needs to be addressed. https://t.co/J8s1Zmy7Hb

[Yvette & Lena at NRDC @NRDCYvetteLena]

Congratulations to the new @FTC Chair, @linamkhan! Her knowledge and experience in antitrust work will help protect farmers, ranchers, and workers and create fairness in our food system.

https://t.co/mB7goZws8D

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

When it comes to limits on the use of antibiotics in our food, the @US_FDA needs to prioritize public health — not profit-seeking drug companies. Learn more with @NRDC's David Wallinga (@Food_Dr):
https://t.co/3Bq3rMOR02

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

California's food system vulnerabilities have been laid bare this past year. To withstand future crises, we must take action to advance solutions that build resilience and support small farmers. #YesOnAB125 https://t.co/Y5MmRmlaxZ

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

Cover crops are an effective farming tool for improving soil health, climate, and water quality — yet less than 7% of U.S. cropland uses them.

Learn more new cover crop programs that will support farmers and combat #ClimateChange below. 👩🏽‍🌾
https://t.co/kTcJmDKwv1

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

This is simply unacceptable.

The extent and documentation of corporate irresponsibility at the global meatpacking company JBS is massive — rendered more so by the toll of workers falling sick or dying with COVID-19.
https://t.co/Dc27ymwVbf

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

Our future health is at stake. Follow this 3-part thread and put FDA on notice it needs try harder and move faster to make sure all animal antibiotics finally have time (duration) limits. @IDSAInfo @PIDSociety @PIDS_PH @saveantibiotics @Stop_Superbugs

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

An Emergency Temporary Standard that protects food system workers during COVID-19 is long overdue. We support calls for OSHA to take immediate action. https://t.co/vi3xhvbIGM

@NationalCOSH @MassCOSH @OxfamAmerica @foodchainworker @HEAL_Food @NJWEC @lastmileworks

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

@FIGOHQ @UCSF_PRHE Check out the infographic, for patients, new moms, clinicians alike, prepared by @FIGOHQ @UCSF_PRHE @HealthandEnv, with help of @NRDC https://t.co/kMtL0TWir4

[Anna Lappé @annalappe]

Get inspired! A growing movement is taking on @UF to demand the abolition of exploitation + prison slavery in its food purchases. Listen to their story on the #Foodtopias podcast from @RealFoodMedia: https://t.co/nPHwjsk7AF
@Herbicide_Free
@unr_now

[Healthy Food Action @HFAction]

Why are nurses, OB-Gyns and other health professionals calling for a global ban on usage of #PFAS 'forever chemicals'? Read on...

[Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment @UCSF_PRHE]

Learn more about why @FIGOHQ has called for an end to global usage of #PFAS.

@HealthandEnv @UCSF_PRHE @SustainUCSF @NRDC

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

I stand by calls from @PublicJustice, National Environmental Law Project for OSHA to finally issue the promised temp standard to protect workers from deadly infections https://t.co/VgVMXEFnbX

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

More evidence that U.S.-style industrial meat production contaminates meat with resistant superbugs, while squandering human antibiotics https://t.co/AtN0lmUj5X

[Healthy Food Action @HFAction]

Our food, water, and bodies are increasingly polluted with highly toxic, '#ForeverChemicals, called PFAS. Leading women's health organizations are sounding the alarm for moms and babies, calling for a #PFAS ban @UCSF_PRHE @#HealthandEnv

[FIGO HQ @FIGOHQ]

You may not recognise the name #PFAS, yet you’re likely to come in contact with these toxic chemicals on a daily basis.

Find out why FIGO, @HealthandEnv and @UCSF_PRHE are concerned about these #ForeverChemicals at https://t.co/9K6bBOqPNy

#environmentalhealth #BanPFAS

[Healthy Food Action @HFAction]

Huge win for public health, and for future generations of children to not be poisoned from this especially nasty insecticide. @CEHN @pesticideaction @kathryngilje @JBSass

[Nick Chartres, PhD @NickZChartres]

@NRDC's @JBSass highlights that "The court ruled in favor of science" following the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit rulling that @EPA must ban #chlorpyrifos a widely usedpesticide linked to neurological damage in children #industryinfluence
https://t.co/EPSFEDUJsH

[Healthy Food Action @HFAction]

@YoungFarmers @saafon4farmers Reading Now: @sharingourroots story of why/how it's co-creating an Agrarian Commons model for how sharing farmland can help new farmers succeed, overcome land prices and reduce financial risk

[Healthy Food Action @HFAction]

Debt burden is a huge barrier for any new farmer, but for would-be BIPOC farmers, it just adds to a surfeit of other barriers, including the legacy of USDA racism. @YoungFarmers @saafon4farmers

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

Student debt forgiveness could make farming possible for a new generation of young BIPOC farmers. Read more via @civileats: https://t.co/JSJEvZ0Ctv #FarmerFriday