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Need to grow your own manure?
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, Billy wrote: In article , "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "gunner" wrote in message "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message "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. Our cattle are only ever given anitbiotics if they have a problem like an infection and then it's usually only one jab that has a 3 day life. Fran, ya gotta get out more Dear. No, I don't need to get out more but you should pay attention to what I write, not what you think I write. The article that Billy posted reported only on intensively farmed animals. There are indeed other forms of farming animals that does not involve the use of antibiotics. We do the latter. 24 Feb 2009 http://www.rsca.org.au/media-centre/...iotics-on-inte ns ive-farms.html : "Antibiotic resistance is becoming a big threat to the health of Australians and is increasingly being linked to the food we eat. This cite too is only about intensive farming. We too have intensive farming however, I was not complaining about the existence of intensive farming but the fact that the artcile made no attempt to mention that there was any form of farming OTHER than that which involved the use of antibiotics. Sloppy reporting because it made no attempt to differentiate. Follow-up This point was made in the Letters to the Editor in the June, '09 Scientific American. The author, Nathan Fiala, responded that in 2000, then president of the U.S. National Farmers Union, Leland Swenson, in testimony given to the House Judiciary Committee, claimed that 4 companies produce 81% of the beef grown in this country. Fiala claims that companies of this size must of necessity be using CAFO. Americans, on average, eat about 100 lbs of beef/year/person. Secondly, he states, "that to meet the increased consumption worldwide, CAFO are the fastest-growing production method in developing countries, and they most likely are the future of beef production for everyone around the globe." The problem seems to be that the entire world aspires to the American life style, that was based on being the only major industrial country not in ruins after WWII. For a short time, we had the stay at home mom, whose family could live well on the husbands wages. That time is long gone, and real income for most Americans has remained flat for the last 30 years, while the upper 20% of earners have seen their incomes soar. With another 3 BILLION people due to join the world's population in the next 40 years, the likelihood is that instead of emerging countries eating like the industrialized countries, the industrialized countries will need to learn to eat like third world countries. Then, of course, there is the problem that a 1/3 of the worlds population, through no fault of their own, lives on $2/day, or less. It gives small satisfaction, that in the future, as now, the best food you can get, is what you grow yourself. Faced with factory food, clean, fresh produce will only become more valuable, and if Monsanto has their way, more expensive to grow. May be useful http://tinyurl.com/mmczq6 Bill -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA |
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Need to grow your own manure?
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Bill who putters wrote: It gives small satisfaction, that in the future, as now, the best food you can get, is what you grow yourself. Faced with factory food, clean, fresh produce will only become more valuable, and if Monsanto has their way, more expensive to grow. May be useful http://tinyurl.com/mmczq6 Bill Maybe, maybe not. Processed carbohydrates seem to be starving us of needed nutrients. Whole grain carbohydrates are better but far from perfect. Like da man said,"Eat more plants, mostly leafy ones, and a little meat." http://www.environnement.ens.fr/pers...mistake_jared_ diamond.pdf -- - Billy There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves. Will Rogers http://green-house.tv/video/the-spring-garden-tour http://www.tomdispatch.com/p/zinn |
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Need to grow your own manure?
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, Billy wrote: In article , Bill who putters wrote: It gives small satisfaction, that in the future, as now, the best food you can get, is what you grow yourself. Faced with factory food, clean, fresh produce will only become more valuable, and if Monsanto has their way, more expensive to grow. May be useful http://tinyurl.com/mmczq6 Bill Maybe, maybe not. Processed carbohydrates seem to be starving us of needed nutrients. Whole grain carbohydrates are better but far from perfect. Like da man said,"Eat more plants, mostly leafy ones, and a little meat." http://www.environnement.ens.fr/pers...mistake_jared_ diamond.pdf While looking about for info on Chinese salads found http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/ Salad yielded http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/np/nc_salad.htm Can't recall ever seeing A salad offering in local Chinese places but Japanese offer a variety. Suno Muno SP Cucumber Salad nice and fresh in area . Bill -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA |
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