On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:27:06 +0000, Jim Webster wrote:


"Welsh Witch" wrote in message

"One of the keys to solving this problem is to use antibiotics as little
as
possible."


Best way is to go veggie, then we wouldn't need to buy this "unfit for
human consumption" garbage, that lazy farmers, like webster and co
inflict on the world. I'm surprised more of them are not locked up!
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Go veggie...
http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co....pNodeId=139317
dangerous things these arable crops
FARMING CHANGES LEAD TO ALLERGIES
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10:30 - 21 December 2006
A Leading agriculturalist says changes in farming practice are almost
certainly responsible for an increase in food allergies in the UK.Speaking
at a conference on food and healthy eating, Patrick Holden, director of the
Soil Association, said changes in cereal production and the manufacture of
bread particularly, have caused an increase in wheat allergies.



Mr Holden told the conference at the Royal Agricultural College,
Cirencester, that he spoke to another expert who felt the same.

"Changes in farming practice are a causative factor in allergies," he
said.

His comments came after he gave a talk to the conference and was
questioned by audience members.

The one-day conference also heard Professor Robert Pickard, director
general of the British Nutrition Foundation, talk about the importance of
achieving nutritional balance in what people eat.

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consumers ought to cut back on the amount of grain etc that they eat,
perhaps reducing their daily calorie intake

Jim Webster
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It is extraordinary that so many people are suddenly becoming allergic or
intolerant of grain, usually in the shape of wheat but not always and only
and milk.
A number of farmers are suffering from very strange nerve anomalies some
have been awarded compensation as there's talk of it being related to
the organo-phosphates used in sheep dip etc.
I think a similar substance is used on crops as a herbicide/insecticide
but not sure!
If you drive into a farm supplies merchant the number of
adverts. for jabs etc for a variety of bugs beetles and toads is quite
incredible. I expect confronted with warble fly or some such its would be
hard to resist the ease with which it can be despatched with a patent
medicine!
I expect a few people have been reading the www.notmilk.com website and
had the newsletters...they have succeeded in turning my partner right off
milk!
There have been pages in the papers about the scams of food sold to us as
organic but not, and "wild" salmon which is farm bred and sprayed with
organo-phosphates etc.

Surely we are lucky to be interested in gardening
which leads us on to other problems.... When in the garden planting etc
its quite disconcerting to come within the spraying range from next door
with their great machine spewing out something noxious on to their
crops and my back..I suppose one can be thankful it's not liquid manu-)

PS Oh I hope you having huge fun with my "month" spelling don't be like
the small boy who couldn't understand why he shouldn't go into
a private room for "young mothers", he being interested in the species:-)
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