Our Coalition Members
Spanning the nation, KAW coalition members work in an array of issue areas. We partner to ensure public health and wellbeing by saving the future effectiveness of antibiotics.
Coalition members
How to become a member
All of KAW's coalition members believe in the same set of guiding principles:
We support eliminating the misuse of antibiotics in both agriculture and human medicine in order to stop the spread of antibiotic-resistant superbugs that cause difficult to treat infections in humans and animals.
We support a ban on the use of medically important antibiotics in food animals for purposes other than treating individual sick or injured animals or controlling outbreaks of diagnosed bacterial infections in groups of animals where disease is likely to spread. An antibiotic is medically important if it is used in human medicine or is closely related to a human drug.
We promote producing food in ways that do not rely upon routine or regular use of antibiotics. Animal disease should be prevented by raising animals under healthy conditions, administering vaccines, implementing good husbandry practices, and providing appropriate diets; not by administering antibiotics.
We urge companies involved in the production and marketing of meat, milk, eggs, poultry and fish (livestock producers, supermarkets, restaurants, etc.) to set time bound policies that eliminate the use of medically important antibiotics for purposes other than treating sick or injured animals or controlling diagnosed outbreaks of bacterial infections.
We support the creation of a nationwide system to collect objective, representative, verifiable data on the production, sales, and use of antibiotics in both human medicine and animal agriculture, and to make that information available to the public.
We support the collection and reporting at the state and federal level of data on antibiotic resistant bacteria collected from farms, food animals, food, sick people, and the environment.