Trader Joe's was the target of a full-page ad in Tuesday's San Francisco Chronicle that urged it to stop selling meat raised with antibiotics.
The advocacy arm of Consumer Reports magazine, Consumers Union, has pressured the quirky California-based grocery chain to become a leader in the market-based effort to reduce the use of antibiotics on healthy animals — something world health authorities believe needs to be done to preserve human health and stop the development of superbugs as I write here.
“The public health threat posed by the overuse of antibiotics for meat production is real and growing,” Jean Halloran, director of food policy initiatives for Consumers Union, said in a statement. “Trader Joe’s could make a big difference for public health by working with its meat suppliers to transition away from the reckless overuse of antibiotics on healthy livestock.”
While Trader Joe's already sells some poultry and beef that has been raised without antibiotics, it currently doesn't offer any such pork, according to the consumer group.
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