The way America produces meat, milk and eggs is unsustainable, creates significant risks to public health from antibiotic resistance and disease, damages the environment and unnecessarily harms animals, a report released Tuesday says. Representing two years of research by the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, the report suggests ways to safeguard the safety and stability of U.S. meat, milk and egg production. A joint project of the non-profit Pew Charitable Trusts and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, it focuses on problems caused by a nationwide move to large, industrial-style animal-feeding facilities. Making the necessary changes to the system that puts food on America's tables doesn't mean making meat, milk and eggs so expensive that people can't afford to eat, says panel chairman John Carlin of Kansas State University. BETTER LIFE: More 'food for thought' "We're talking pennies. And when you factor in the positives from the standpoint of public health and the environment, it would actually save us money," he says. Meat, milk and eggs have become cheaper in the years since the rise of industrial animal farms. But those methods have come at a cost, the report says. They include: