79th WHA Individual Statements
Factory farming is a major contributor to the AMR crisis. The global action plan on AMR focuses primarily on behaviour and neglects the major driver of AMR: the mass use of antibiotics enabling industrial livestock production, including for growth promotion and intensive farming practices.
Corporations with direct financial interests in the continued overuse of antimicrobials cannot be treated as neutral partners is AMR Policy making: they have conflicts of interest.
Traditional diets worldwide did not include the enormous amount of meat that we see today. Factory farming has colonial and capitalist origins rooted in extraction and profit, not in feeding populations sustainably. Decolonizing our food systems and diets by supporting agroecology and food sovereignty instead of agrobusiness and factory farming is urgently needed to stop the AMR crisis.