CAFOs Uncovered: The Untold Costs of Confined Animal Feeding Operations
When it comes to most of the meat, dairy, and eggs produced in the United States, there's truly no such thing as a free lunch. In this new report, UCS exposes the billions of dollars in environmental, health, and economic costs imposed on society by Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).

Sustainable Food Choices
Check out our Fall issue of Green Cuisine: Earth-friendly, Heathly Recipes from Top Chefs and Local Farmers! In this edition you'll meet Bowdoin College head chefs David Crooker and Daran Poulin, as well as their supplier of beef raised without antibiotics, Arnold Luce of Luce's Meats.

Protect Our Food
A campaign to take the harm out of pharma and industrial crops
Help us convince the USDA to ban the outdoor use of food crops to produce pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals.

Campaign Updates
Read the latest developments from our campaigns on sustainably produced food, genetic engineering, and antibiotic resistance

Government Oversight
FDA OKs Cloned Meat and Milk; USDA Keeps Moratorium in Place

Informed Choices 
New label for grass-fed meat will benefit consumers and the environment

Antibiotics and Food
Leaders in Congress introduce bill to end use of important human antibiotics as feed additives for livestock and poultry.

Biotechnology Update
UCS opposes deregulation of an experimental variety of genetically engineered rice that was found to have already contaminated the food supply.

Academic Research
Study suggests link between antibiotic-resistant urinary tract infections in women and antibiotic use in animal agriculture

• FDA advisory committee agrees with UCS and other groups: Using human antibiotic in cattle could create antibiotic resistance and threaten human health.

• Years of activism by UCS staff and supporters paid off when the Food and Drug Administration succeeded in withdrawing the approval for the poultry antibiotic Baytril.

• UCS was instrumental in working with Maine state legislators, who adopted a purchasing policy that addresses antibiotic resistance in human medicine.

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