The City Council is being asked, at Tuesday's March 10 council meeting, to pass a resolution in support of national action on the misuse of antibiotics, as presented by the Southwestern organization Students for Environmental Activism and Knowledge (SEAK).
It is asserted eighty percent of the antibiotics sold in the United States are used in
livestock production, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported
that most of those antibiotics are used irresponsibly. The key elements of the proposed resolution follows:
"NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that on the _____day of ____2014,
Georgetown supports a statewide and national ban on non-therapeutic uses of antibiotics
in livestock production; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Georgetown supports the Protection of Antibiotics
for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA)/Prevention of Antibiotic Resistance Act (PARA).
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Georgetown will send a letter to our State representatives, Congressional Representative and U.S. Senators calling for a ban on the
non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock agriculture and for them to co-sponsor the
PAMTA/PARA".
There are many families in Georgetown and surrounding Williamson County that depend on agriculture for their economic well-being, and they would not take kindly to the Georgetown City Council passing and supporting an advocacy that will likely have a negative economic impact on their personal lives.
Furthermore, since the Council represents all the citizens of Georgetown, it seems inappropriate for the Council to support this social engineering effort.
Call your council person before the council meeting at 6pm on Tuesday, March 10, at (512) 930-3652 and tell them to deny this resolution!
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