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Old 24-12-2006, 07:10 AM posted to uk.business.agriculture,alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian,uk.environment.conservation,uk.rec.birdwatching,uk.rec.gardening
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"Welsh Witch" wrote in message
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On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:23:29 +0000, Jim Webster wrote:
Lactose intolerance and Gluten intolerance are both older than spraying

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Then we've been lucky only just met it!


I'm surprised you've not met them early, certainly lactose intolerance is
almost the norm amongst some racial types. Europeans are unusual in being
able to drink liquid milk and cope with the lactose so well

it is exceedingly difficult to despatch warble fly with patent medicine,

as
it has been pretty well erradicated in the UK. Having lived through the
patent medicine era, I can assure you that it didn't respond to treatment

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I don;t know anything much about warble fly except that I see huge banner
advertisement on the railings outside the farm supplies shop where we get
our dog food.. dogs who thankfully don't get warble fly


when did you see the banners because warble fly have been pretty well
erradicated in the UK for over twenty years. Certainly there haven't been
any big stories in the farming press about a come back, so pushing a
compound as a warble fly treatment is not aimed at farmers.


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!


anyone who believes that site is lacking in the ability to do their own
basic research

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-)


what do you think is the foundation of organic production if not liquid
manure?

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can't say it would be delightful to be sprayed with effluent as was the
chap in tonight's "You've been framed.
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While I wouldn't recommend it as an aftershave, what on earth are they
supposed to do with it? Indeed one of the biggest threats to sustainability
is the fact that human effluent is not returned to the land, but flushed
away

Jim Webster