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The legislation to restrict the current overuse, I would say abuse, of antibiotics by farmers who

raise livestock for human consumption. Louise Slaughter, member of Congress from upstate New York

in 2009 on the floor of the House. Slaughter died March 16th. She was 88

and the oldest current member of Congress at the time of her death. More of her 2009 remarks.

We have legislation that has strong and growing number of supporters who, like me, worried

that the use of non-therapeutic antibiotics in our food supply poses an enormous and growing health risk for all Americans.

And I hope all my colleagues will be with us when we take up the preservation of antibiotics for the Medical Treatment Act.

Slaughter grew up in Kentucky and received a bachelor's degree in microbiology and a master's in public health, both from the University of Kentucky.

She repeatedly introduced legislation to cut down the overuse of antibiotics to promote animal growth, a factor in driving the development of antibiotic-resistant disease.

Marin McKenna talked to me about Slaughter last fall when McKenna's book, Big Chicken, came out.

Every term, she brings forth a bill that is known as PAMTA, the preservation of antibiotics

for medical treatment act that would remove from agriculture any antibiotic that is also used in human medicine.

And every year, the bill doesn't even get as far as hearings.

And every year she brings it back again.

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