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"  1. Use antibiotics correctly. Work with your doctor to determine if an antibiotic will truly help what&amp;#039;s ailing you, then follow her instructions. Any time you skip doses, don&amp;#039;t finish a course, or drink alcohol when you&amp;#039;re on the meds, you make the antibiotic less effective and give bacteria a chance to become resistant. 2. Buy meat labeled &amp;quot;raised without antibiotics&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;organic.&amp;quot; Those exact phrases mean that antibiotics were not given to the animal needlessly. Watch out for wording; labels that say &amp;quot;all natural&amp;quot; guarantee nothing. Some good, antibiotic-free brands: Applegate Farms, Murray&amp;#039;s Chicken, Bell &amp;amp;amp; Evans, and Niman Ranch. Can&amp;#039;t find these in your market? Tell your grocer to stock up and that you and your friends will buy! Also ask your kids&amp;#039; school to serve meat that was raised without antibiotics. (Go to saveantibiotics.org to download a letter you can send.) Chicago Public Schools just became the largest district in the country to do this. 3. Ask your favorite restaurants if they use meat raised without antibiotics. If a company like Chipotle can do it, why can&amp;#039;t others? &amp;quot;Things will only change if we ask for changes,&amp;quot; says Gail Hansen, a public health advocate with the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming. 4. Spread the message. &amp;quot;Like&amp;quot; the group Save Antibiotics on Facebook, and get friends to do the same. Awareness is key: Most people have no idea which illnesses require antibiotics, nor do they know how much the drugs are used in food animals. &amp;quot;Unless you grew up on a farm, why would you know that?&amp;quot; says Hansen. 5. Tell Congress to pass a law. The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act would withdraw the use of antibiotics that are vital to humans from food-animal production unless the animals are diagnosed with illnesses. Says U.S. Representative Louise M. Slaughter, who introduced the bill: &amp;quot;Send a letter to your member of Congress \u2014 along with this article! \u2014 and tell them to sign the bill and get it passed.&amp;quot; Personalize your own letter at saveantibiotics.org/moms/action.html, then get your reps&amp;#039; addresses at senate.gov and house.gov. Learn more about how antibiotics can cause superbugs. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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