Groups call for supermarket ban on meat from cows routinely fed antibiotics

Two major consumer groups are calling on supermarkets to stop selling meat from animals that are routinely fed with antibiotics even when they are not sick.

The call comes from Consumers Union and the California Public Interest Research Group, Cal PIRG.

They say feeding livestock with antibiotics every day leads to the growth of super bugs that also infect humans.

Ninety-seven percent of doctors polled by Consumer Reports say they are very worried the bugs can't be killed off.

"There has been a rise in what some people call superbugs, bacteria that are resistant to the medicine we traditionally can take and that is leading to an increase in prolonged illnesses and death in this country," Emily Rusch said.

The consumer groups want supermarkets to buy from farms that use antibiotics only when an animal is sick. Not in their daily feed.