Source: Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE, 5/16/14
 
Leaving no stone unturned to further its views on the use of antibiotics to treat food animals, 11 organizations led by the PEW Charitable Trusts are asking the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef to include the topic in its definition of sustainable beef.

The groups argued their case in a letter to the Roundtable on the last day of public comment on a proposed definition of sustainable beef.

Global Roundtable President Cameron Bruett told Meatingplace the Roundtable’s proposed sustainable beef definition purposefully does not call out specific technologies and does not “prejudice one production practice over another,” noting a global definition must encompass a broad array of production options.
“All systems are going to have to improve and become more sustainable...but we don’t have the luxury to limit any production system,” he said.

The animal welfare section of the Roundtable’s definition states, “Global sustainable beef stakeholders respect and manage animals to ensure their health and welfare.”

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