Rejected petition Ban farmers from using antibiotics

Farmers are using antibiotics on animals to make them grow faster or help them survive in cramped, stressful, unhygienic conditions. This is not fair and cruel.

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When antibiotics are used on livestock, it can contribute to the expansion of drug-resistant bacteria. Which is a potential risk to public health.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

We can't accept your petition because we're not sure what action you would like the Government to take. The use of antibiotics as growth promoters in animals was banned in the UK and the rest of the EU in 2006.

You can find out more here:

https://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/POST-PN-0588

You might like to support and share this petition, which calls for the end to caging of farmed animals, instead:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/243448

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 22 May 2019
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