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Turkeys and other food animals are regularly given antibiotics in their feed to promote faster growth and to prevent diseases caused by overcrowded conditions in animal factory farms. This practice has serious consequences for our health because it causes bacteria to develop resistance to these drugs. When a person gets sick from resistant bacteria, their prescribed antibiotics will not work.

This holiday season, we encourage you to buy turkeys labeled "organic" or "raised without antibiotics" and to sign this petition telling the nation's big turkey producers—including Butterball and Jennie-O—to protect our health and stop putting these important drugs in animal feed.

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