Antibiotic users do not want this discussed in Westminster, they want a voluntary deal done in private.
Parliament needs to get on with the doing the job of discussing the matter in public, so we know who voted against reform and who was missing from the chamber.
The motion even uses the term "superbugs" something popularised by Maryn McKenna in her book "Superbugs."
We need to take some lessons in democracy from Denmark: a country leaping ahead in antibiotic control and public health protection.
Fuller information, including the names of the sponsors is available from the House of Commons site here:
Early day motion 566
USE OF ANTIBIOTICS IN INTENSIVE FARMING
2012-13
15.10.2012
That this House recognises that the overuse of
antibiotics in intensive farming adds to the serious public health threat from
antibiotic resistance and the rise of superbugs; welcomes the Government's
efforts to reduce over-prescribing by doctors; calls for parallel action to
reduce the use of antibiotics by veterinary surgeons and farmers; and further
calls on the Government to take steps to ensure that the routine prophylactic
use of antibiotics on UK farms is phased out and that specific controls are
introduced on the use in livestock of antibiotics that are critically important
in human medicine.
