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Old 16-06-2009, 04:52 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible,rec.gardens
David Hare-Scott[_2_] David Hare-Scott[_2_] is offline
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Default Need to grow your own manure?

FarmI wrote:
"Billy" wrote in message

For half a century, meat producers have fed antibiotics to farm
animals to increase their growth and stave off infections.


The Minnesota researchers planted corn, green onion and cabbage in
manure-treated soil in 2005 to evaluate the environmental impacts of
feeding antibiotics to livestock. Six weeks later, the crops were
analyzed and found to absorb chlortetracycline, ......


Jeeze Louise! More bloody sloppy reporting. Why don't they
differntiate between Feedlot animals and grass fed animals!

Or perhaps all beef in the US comes from feedlot animals.


Aparently the majority does and even 'grass-fed' may mean grass finished.

David