The VISION of Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT) is that one day all farms will be humane and healthy places to raise food animals.

The MISSION of Food Animal Concerns Trust (FACT) is to improve the welfare of food animals; broaden opportunities for humane farmers; and address public health problems that come from the production of meat, milk and eggs.

Go Clone Free!  FACT has joined forces with a broad coalition of animal and consumer groups to urge companies not to produce or purchase food that comes from cloned animals or their offspring.  Earlier this year, the FDA declared cloned products safe to eat, despite the known risks of cloning to animal welfare, and potentially to food safety as well.  We are now asking food companies, producers, restaurants and grocers to take a pledge to “to avoid any products or ingredients derived from cloned animals or their offspring, and we not knowingly accept, purchase, or sell any such products.”  .  We will keep you informed of our progress and have exciting new opportunities for you to take action on this issue in the New Year! Please contact Larissa McKenna at (773) 525-4952 for more information.

FDA Neglects Public Health Protections to Accommodate Farm Industry. On November 27, the day before Thanksgiving, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reversed its decision to ban the extralabel use of cephalosporin antimicrobial drugs in veterinary medicine. This move came after the Agency received over 100 comments from the animal agriculture industry and production veterinarians. The reversal ignores the evidence on which FDA’s initial decision was based as well as other studies submitted to the Agency supporting the ban. FACT’s Richard Wood, Steve Roach, and others recently met with the FDA to underscore the importance of this scientific evidence and the growing threat to human health caused by this extralabel drug use. In our view, when the FDA set this compelling evidence aside to revoke its ban, it also set aside its mandate to protect public health. FACT and the Keep Antibiotics Working coalition plan to work with the new administration to restore the ban.