Elanco Animal Health, a division of Eli Lilly and Company, will participate in the White House Forum on Antibiotic Stewardship where Elanco President Jeff Simmons will participate in a panel discussion. Concurrently, Simmons is unveiling the company’s multi-faceted approach to combat the growing concern about antibiotic resistance. A summary of Simmons’ remarks follows:
In the next few decades, demand for animal protein will climb 60 percent1 as population increases and the global middle class expands by three billion people2. These numbers are important, because we’re already overusing the Earth’s resources, consuming about 1.5 times the natural resources we should use in a year3. Delivering safe, sufficient, affordable protein to feed the growing population has never been at greater risk.