This research synthesises evidence from 80 studies, highlighting how AMR emergence and spread within food systems is driven by a complex interplay of factors across human, animal, and environmental reservoirs (e.g., water, soil), with impacts for disease burden in humans, animals and crops and financial viability of farming. This review underscores the need for a One Health approach to AMR mitigation. 

This blog post from The Good Food Institute addresses the question of whether cultivated meat (and other lab-grown foods) can reduce the risk of antibiotic resistance compared to livestock production. Antibiotics are often added to cell culture media in laboratories to prevent infection, but over a dozen cultivated food companies claim to have antibiotic-free processes.

This book presents an overview of animal welfare as it relates to farming, hunting, fishing, entertainment and environmental implications. It discusses legal developments around the world as well as how different groups of stakeholders view animal welfare issues.

This report from World Animal Protection and Tasting the Future argues that industrial livestock farming negatively affects human health through five main pathways: malnutrition and obesity; antibiotic resistant microbes; foodborne illnesses worsened by animals being reared in stressful conditions; illnesses from environmental contamination, such as zinc in animal excretions; and the physical and mental impacts of poor working conditions in slaughter, processing and packaging facilities. It also sets out proposed systemic shifts and recommendations for policymakers.

This report, prepared for the European Public Health Alliance by Cóilín Nunan of the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, argues that changing animal husbandry practices to improve animal welfare is essential for reducing the routine use of antibiotics on farms.

The fourth edition of the Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index assesses 60 of the world’s largest protein producers, covering beef, pork, poultry and eggs, dairy and aquaculture, against several environmental, social and governance factors, including climate, biodiversity, water use, antibiotics, working conditions and alternatives to animal protein.

This report from the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics argues that while UK supermarkets are making progress in their responsible antibiotic use policies, they should expand them to cover all animal products that they sell. While all the leading supermarkets have antibiotic policies in place already, they usually only cover own-brand animal products.

TABLE member Luke Spajic has hosted an episode of the Climate Proof-Food Podcast, in which Dr Claas Kirchelle, historian of science, medicine, and technology at University College Dublin, speaks about the contribution of agriculture to antimicrobial resistance.