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APUA President Says Mass Use of Antibiotics Is Cause for Concern - msnbc.com

... use of antibiotics in food-producing animals will have little impact in fighting the growing threat of antibiotic resistance to public health unless ... Farm Aid; Food & Water Watch; Food Democracy Now!;

Consumer Coalition: Reduce Antibiotic Use on Farms - Wisconsin Ag Connection

Farm Aid ... oversight and controls on antibiotic use on industrial farms and that the FDA guidance on non-judicious use does not sufficiently curtail the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in animals that are not sick.

Americans To FDA: Reduce Antibiotic Use In Food Animal Production - CattleNetwork.com

Americans to U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Preserve Life-Saving Medicines; Reduce ... - Common Dreams

Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics Advises the FDA Needs to Establish a System to ... - Earthtimes

FDA Alleges Farm Sold Cattle As Human Food With Illegal Drug Residues - Medical News Today

... contrary to the drugs' FDA-approved labeling and without a valid veterinary prescription to authorize their use - the ... Selling animals for human consumption that have illegal levels of antibiotic drugs can ...

Cutting back on antibiotics use poses hurdles for hog farmers - Des Moines Register

Newly weaned pigs arrive at the Hillemans' farm when they're about 3 weeks old ... who co-authored an Iowa State University guide to minimizing antibiotic use in hogs. Among other things, the guide says farmers have ...

Sunny side up: why eggs are safer in Europe - Reuters Blogs

Department of Agriculture has only recently acknowledged that the routine non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in farm animals — which promotes growth — might be causing antibiotic-resistant bugs. Here in America ...

Eggs 101: egg-sploring labels, egg-splaining idioms, & two egg-speriments - Examiner

... Farms Farm ... antibiotic or hormone residue and have a higher omega-3 and vitamin E content. They are a better nutritional choice, have better flavor and are produced by farmers who generally support the use

USDA's Vilsack Takes Livestock Investigation to Colorado as Farms Dwindle - Bloomberg

... animals, the fewest since 1959 ... That’s because many contracts are written with formulas that use spot-market prices as a base, he said. “If the cash market doesn’t represent the true market conditions,

Resolved Question: Why do people eat beef?

baby cows are the cutest most adorable animals on earth! even grown up cows are cute! did you know baby cows are taken from their mothers at 2 or 3 days old, chained to a crate with not even enough space to turn around, they don't even know how to walk, they have to be dragged to slaughter, they stand around in cramped dark sheds all day with other cows knee deep in their own poo, of course some of the poo is processed into your sausages and hamburgers too..... these aren't farms!! they're factories... eating beef is bad for your karma. cows are huge animals. they take a long time to be killed. its not instant and painless... it hurts the cow. cows are mammals . humans are mammals. you might as well be a cannibal . they are reincarnated souls!! eating cows is bad for you. cows are fed corn and that makes them high in saturated fat... it causes all sorts of problems from obesity to heart disease to colon cancer. also food poisioning which is antibiotic resistant (because cows are fed antibiotic too) india has the most cows in the world and india also eats the least beef in the world. cows are considered to be pets. they give you milk, baby calfs are playful and cute, also cows are used for transport in cow carts just like horse carts and their poo is used as fertilizer. how would you feel if people ate dogs and cats? thats what it feels like to me did you know that one hamburger patty contains meat from 1200 cows? it is so processed. also the people that work in these factories are abused. they have no unions, low wages, poor and unsanitary working conditions. also raising cows caused global warming. imagine all the oil it takes to make the killing factories work. there are only three slaughterhouses in america.. all the beef in america comes from these three.. it is driven around to every mcdonals and to every supermarket. imagine all the gasoline and petrol and oil wasted. wow. remember cows are supposed to be pets. im hindu and no we do not worship cows . cows are special because lord krishna had a pet cow . when he was a baby the cow was a calf. they grew up together. look- how cute!!! awwww http://i820.photobucket.com/albums/zz128/jl8788/krsna2cow-1.jpg http://www.bryanhillfarm.com/images/calf.jpg p.s. i also dont condone eating other animals like pork or chicken !! its best to be a complete vegetarian :) try it !!! you will feel so much better spirtiually and physically i promise more

Resolved Question: Im back at being a vegetarian...?

Ok so recently i thought i would be a good way to start my summer as a veggie (: I have done this before and it lasted for 5 months about. I never really have been a meat lover so i don't feel like i'm missing anything. haha. But my family is all still on meat, so my mum told me to make a list of things that i would be able to get at the store for my meals: BF, Lunch and Dinner. For BF i normally eat toast a juice and eggs, Im not becoming a vegan as i think i can't do that o.o But for any of you veggies out there, what things do you like to eat for lunches and dinner? I might be in the situation of having to prepare my own meals for supper. Like what should i shop for? I don't mind Tofu, but i do have a thing with fake meat. Yuck. I think if someone is willing to become a vegetarian they should have to eat fake meat just to get by. Thats my first question. Next. ( haha sorry if this alot you can just answer what you can) I want your imputs on Vegetarianism. Like i think im making a good choice in not supporting the companies that have inhumanly dealt with the meat i had been consuming. I know humans have been eating meat ever since like the dawn of ages but really we killed our food humanly i think back then. Like you had your cow and you killed it and use all you could. But now we just go out and breed and keep animals in suck horrid conditions most with steroids and antibiotics just so they can make for profit for the companies... All the animals are like sick in pain and you can imagine that they just want to die! but its such an awful long and unthinkable journey to get there :/ And finally... My parents have been purchasing meat from a local farm just in the valley were the cows are grass fed and in the field most the time and live a natural life then are basically killed and go to the local butcher... Is this a better way to go? Like im still going to be a veggie but i think the way my family goes with meat it best. We even get eggs from our neighbors chickens (: they are hapy chicken too! So if you've read all this and can help me get this straight and let me hear your thoughts that would be great!!! :D haha THANK YOU!Well we are big taco eaters and i always have black beans in mine even when i ate the meat (: Im 14 also and my best friend has been a veggie for like almost a year now and hes helping me (: more

Resolved Question: why is using antibiotic's to grow farm animals bad?

Resolved Question: Vegetarian propaganda focuses on land-use productivity statistics extrapolated from arable farming and...?

Vegetarian propaganda focuses on land-use productivity statistics extrapolated from arable farming (grain production) and the feeding of (the same) grains to grazing animals - how might this constitute serious context-drops? So often vegetarians fondly repeat (and repeat again) how arable farming produces more food and how wasteful and unproductive it is to produce meat from the same sized area of land and so on and so on... But, based on the methods used to produce such figures (see above/below) do these (virtually) uncritically accepted assumptions have any valid context in Reality? What relevance might this have? Points to consider: Do grazing animals naturally eat grains? Do humans naturally eat grains? (Ok brain now's your chance: can humans really digest raw grains very well/at all?). Can any system basing its models on the use of irrational (and unacceptable) farming practise have any credibility or meaningful value for changing/implementing policy? Has such a serious lack of objective honesty and context demonstrated the same level of manipulation as (for instance) testing a (competing model of) petrol car's performance (but on the important test day deciding to use diesel) and coming up with far reaching conclusions that the car is rubbish. What happens to land-yield models when bringing the calculations back to Reality (ie, when comparing such models when grazing animals get fed their natural diet)? Why have you fallen for this propaganda? What else might need an injection of critical thinking? (Other widely accepted notions of environmental/vegetarian dogma for instance? For instance, monocrops don't happen in isolation or get maintained all by themselves do they?)(This is also not an invitation to get confused* either about developing countries engaging in (my own opinion) totally unacceptable and criminal violation of rainforest land etc - this represents a completely separate and gravely serious issue - keep everything in context please). Also see: http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2002/Mar02/vegan.htm (and on Yahoo! Answers: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Amq9XdiDFEdc5vBgRykplAIhBgx.;_ylv=3?qid=20100510151034AAd2REm ) PS: as many people seem to have 'forgotten' what grazing animals naturally eat - they eat grass, which they crop. And grass grows back. PPS: *It is completely irrelevant what the meat industry does in general - in context of your own individual dietary choices. It does not not matter (personally) what the meat industry does. Only personal application matters. I eat meat and animal fats everyday - loads of it. None of the meat/dairy I eat comes from farms engaging in the unacceptable practises of feeding grains to grazing animals, or destroying rainforest land (for short lived cattle pasture/monocrops of soya etc), or artificially intensifying production (to the animals detriment), or blanket use of antibiotics (why do you think grain fed grazing animals typically require such treatments anyway? What happens when looking after grazing animals properly, allowing a natural diet? Or even this nonsense about cow-methane? Come on, join the dots), or forcing them to listen to heavy rock music constantly, or anything that rationally could get considered an animal welfare abuse. Animal farming is not the problem. Demonising meat (or animal fats) is not the solution. Cutting your nose off to spite your brain is just funny and not recommended. more

Resolved Question: Why is giving medicine when not needed bad?

I am writing a persuasive essay about how antibiotics are being over used in farming. One reason is that giving antibiotics to animals when not needed is bad. How can I support that? Thx! more

Resolved Question: Bacteria Fight Back #1...?

Should there be more federal regulations regarding the use of antibiotics on farm animals such as cows, pigs, and chicken? Who would benefit from this? Who would not benefit from this? more

Resolved Question: What is the relation between 'antibiotics in agriculture' and 'drug-resistant infections in human' ?

What is the relation between 'antibiotics in agriculture' and 'drug-resistant infections in human' and what you will do about it ? Researchers say the overuse of antibiotics in humans and animals has led to a plague of drug-resistant infections that killed more than 65,000 people in the U.S. last year — more than prostate and breast cancer combined. And in a nation that used about 35 million pounds of antibiotics last year, 70 percent of the drugs went to pigs, chickens and cows. Worldwide, it's 50 percent. 13 percent of the antibiotics administered on farms last year were fed to healthy animals to make them grow faster However, these animals can develop germs that are immune to the antibiotics. The germs then rub into scratches on farmworkers' arms, causing oozing infections. They blow into neighboring communities in dust clouds, run off into lakes and rivers during heavy rains, and are sliced into roasts, chops and hocks and sent to our dinner tables. More than 20 percent of all human cases of a deadly drug-resistant staph infection in the Netherlands could be traced to an animal strain, according to a study published online in a CDC journal. Today, when Kremer steps out of his dusty and dented pickup truck and walks toward the open-air barn in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, the animals come running. They snort and root at his knee-high gum boots. There are no gates corralling the 180 pigs in this barn. He points to a mound of composting manure. "There's no antibiotics in there," he says proudly. Kremer sells about 1,200 pigs annually. And a year after "kicking the habit," he says he saved about $16,000 in vet bills, vaccinations and antibiotics. "I don't know why it took me that long to wake up to the fact that what we were doing, it was not the right thing to do and that there were alternatives," says Kremer, stooping to scratch a pig behind the ear. "We were just basically killing ourselves and society by doing this." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091229/ap_o… more

Resolved Question: What is the relation between 'antibiotics in agriculture' and 'drug-resistant infections in human'?

Resolved Question: How are antibiotics used in farm animals?

What species and/or productions systems is it legal to feed antibiotics at sub-therapeutic levels? Where is it illegal to feed antibiotics at sub-therapeutic levels? more

Resolved Question: Anibiotic use in farm animals used for produce benefits-pro or con?

I am writting a paper on the use of antibiotics on farm animals raised for human or produce profits. I am in need of some research sites and or information that has been "Peer-Reviewed"-if anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it! Here is some information on the paper: Questions that must be addressed in your essay: * How are antibiotics used in farm animals? *What species and/or production systems is it legal to feed antibiotics at sub-therapeutic levels? * Where is it illegal to feed antibiotics at sub-therapeutic levels? * What are the benefits to producers of animals and animal products from this technology? * Are there benefits to consumers and the public? What are they? * What are the risks to producers and farm workers from the use of this technology? *Are there risks to consumers and the public? What are they? * If there were currently a bill before either house of Congress, how would you encourage your representatives to vote? Support your decision with facts you discovered in the questions above. Thanks ahead of time!!!! more

Resolved Question: How do people eat meat meat? Even knowing this:?

Meat’s Just Not What It Used To Be Many people think that meat is really good for them and that you need it and the protein can’t be lived without….not true at all. You can ward off disease, live longer, avoid toxic chemicals – like, oh, I don’t know, the swine Flu?! – and help reduce famine. Meat’s hormones are also causing puberty way too early. And sure meat is really good for you but it can be easily replaced with tofu, soy, beans, and vitamins. And, if you prepare it just right, it’s delicious! And by not eating meat, you can save about ten percent of your annual spendings – about 4 thousand dollars. Meat and poultry is also bad for the environment. Livestock activities and slaughter houses are the leading cause for over one hundred and seventy three thousand miles of river’s and stream’s pollution. Some other agricultural activities that cause pollution include plowing, pesticide spraying, irrigation, fertilizing, and harvesting, and confined animal facilities. Plus, about 75% of grains being fed to animals being prepared for your dinner, could be fed to the over one million registered homeless. David Pimentel. Professor of ecology at Cornell University, says, “If all grain currently being fed to livestock is consumed directly by people, the number of people who could be fed could be nearly eight hundred million.” And unlike yesteryear, when animals roamed freely most animals are factory farmed- crammed into cages where they cannot turn around, let alone sit or lie down. And Environmental Defense says if every American skipped just one meal of chicken per week and replaced it with vegetarian foods instead, the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than taking more than a half million cars off the United States’ roads. Animals get fed on a diet of pesticides and antibiotics. Animals being prepared for your dinner are not protected by law. In fact, most state anticruelty laws specifiacally exempt farm animals from basic humane protection. Seventy percent of all grain produced in the US is fed to animals getting prepared for your dinner. And the seven billion livestock animals in America consume five times as much grain as directly by the American population. All livestock sectors create more pollution than all the cars, trucks, planes, trains, and ships in the world. They also create the largest sources of carbon dioxide and the single largetst sours of both methane and nitrous oxide emissions. Nitrous oxide is considerably more potent as a green house gas than carbon dioxide. Meat, egg and dairy industries account for 65% of nitrous oxide emissions. Chris Weber, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, says that not eating meat products is equivalent to not driving eight thousand one hundred miles in a car that gets twenty five miles a gallon. And that buying local meats won’t help because only 5% of food related emissions come from transportation. It takes more than four thousand gallons of water to produce a meat based diet, but only three hundred gallons of water a day is needed for a totally vegetarian diet. Animal factories pollute our waterways more than all the industries combined. Cows , pigs, chickens and other animals raised for produce, produce approximately 30 times as much excrement or corpse waste as the entire human population. The people of Okinawa, Japan have the longest lives of any Japanese and likely the longest life expectancy of anyone in the world, says the thirty year old research of more than 600 Okinawan centenarians. Centenarians are people who have lived a longer life than one hundred years. Their secret: a low calorie diet of unrefined complex carbohydrates, fiber rich fruits and vegetables, and soy. As human become more alert of the absolute horrors of factory farming, companies are reacting by adding labels to their products with relieving words such as “organic”, “free range”, “cage free”, and “natural”. These labels may conjure up images of animals roaming freely in green pastures, but the truth of life and death of animals on organic and range free farms is very contrary. In fact, free range and organic animals are usually sent to the same slaughter houses, starved and thirsty of course, as factory farm animals. Many companies like to trick customers by saying they treat animals well. Two of the most heavily marketed “animal welfare programs” are “Swine Welfare Assurance Program” (SWAP), and “United Egg Producers (UEP) Certified.” These labels are simply fancy names for factory farming – both were created by meat and egg lobbying groups, and both simply serve to put a happy face on the absolute worst practices in today’s factory farms.Dont leave a snide comment saying you dont have the time to read this please.BTW i have NOTHING agaisnt meat eaters. my BESTEST friend couldnt LIVE without hash. its ok. please, dont be affended. more

Voting Question: can you give me a better title?

Super Bacteria I am a little bit concern about antibiotic resistant bacteria for me and my family. It could very well wipe out the human race if we ever create a super bug that can adapt to our medicines. But at the same time if we don’t treat the farm animals, what would become of them? Do we have other solutions as far as treating the animals? After reading the article I felt like if we don’t treat the animals, we have a higher chance of getting sick ourselves. But if we do treat the animals, eventually antibiotic resistant bacteria will get us. It feels like a lose lose situation. “While the drug may cure the E. coli bacteria in the poultry, another kind of bacteria—Campylobacter—may build up resistance to these drugs.”(Bren, Feb. 2001) There are a number of ways we can help slow down the process of antibiotic resistant bacteria. We have contributed to the growing crisis by not taking antibiotics properly and, in many cases, insisting that our doctors prescribe antibiotics for viral infections, such as the flu, ear infections, and the common cold, even though antibiotics work only against bacterial infections. We use antibacterial product daily such as soap, wipes, disinfectants, and other cleaners which does not help the cause. The combination of drug misuse and poor hygiene has brought the problem of antibiotic resistance to a crisis. “Why are our miracle drugs failing us? One reason -- well documented -- is that we have used them too often, to treat infections and conditions that more often than not could be defeated by the body's immune system without medical intervention.” (Laxminarayan & Plotkin, 2003)how about Generation X&Y Microorganisms? more

Resolved Question: When a medication works why is it taken off the market?

For years I used a antibiotic cream named mycitracin. It really worked great. Not only did I use it for myself and my family but it was the best antibiotic I have ever used for animals. I kept a tube in our home medicine cabinet and kept a tube in the medicine cabinet I have within the tack room in my barn. I could use it on any wound. Humans, horses, cattle, dogs, cats, pigs. You name it, put it on it and it got rid of the infection. I heard the company was going to stop making it so I bought lots of tubes. I have only one left. The expiration date is 2001 and it still works! I contacted the company that used to make it - Johnson & Johnson - and they make Mycitracin Plus. It can only be bought on reapplied band aids. How do I put a band aid on a cow, horse, or dog? Yes, for humans it is fine and will work, but I am really upset that the company no longer makes this fine product. Why is it when a product really works that it is taken off the market? Does anyone who farms and has animals have any recommendations on a good product that is equivalent to mycitarcin? more

Resolved Question: Dog's testicles/scrotum shrinking?

Our dog has been on antibiotics for several weeks because he contracted Lyme disease. We couldn't help but notice that his testicles/scrotum have shrunk quite measurably. My husband says this is normal, is it? He's not a vet, but he did grow up on a farm and is used to dealing with animals. Our lab is 11 1/2 years old, intact (obviously), and has no other health problems other than Lyme. more

Resolved Question: could you read my essay (about 2 pages double spaced); it's about going vegetarian?

Humans take complete advantage of animals. We often use and kill them for food, clothes, businesses (circuses, pet stores), and experimental purposes (from testing makeup to medicine); while they can be useful, it is cruel for animals. We often treat them (mainly domestic animals) simply as objects that have no feelings; but they do have feelings, and you can see the emotion in their eyes just as you can with a human. We run their lives for our own use and we are inconsiderate of them. We abuse our superiority, but that needs to be changed. We do not need leather or fur and it is cruel and selfish to take the life of an animal so that people can have fur coats. As for animal testing, there are alternative scientific methods, so why not use those instead? And as for eating meat, it is cruel and we should stop. People try to justify themselves by saying that animals don’t have free will, or that they are useless. Well, tell me, how are humans useful? The majority of us destroy, rather than improve the world. We destroy the environment and treat animals badly; we are superior and we abuse it. People say that since animals, such as cows, are destroying the environment, it is helping the environment by killing them. While cows do produce methane gas, which is harmful to the environment, it is because of the demand for meat that there are so many cows. It is supply and demand and the more people eat meat, the more animals that are bred, which is harming the environment. Therefore, it is not helping the environment by eating meat; it is harming it. Another misconception is that if we did not kill the animals, they would overpopulate; this is also not a problem because of supply and demand. The reason there are so many cows is because farmers breed them for people to eat, but if people stopped eating meat farmers would breed less cows; therefore, animals overpopulating is not a reason for eating meat. Even if that were an issue, humans are overpopulating the earth, but does that mean that humans should be killed? Many people think we need meat to live. However, there are many other types of food and many health benefits for vegetarians (decreased risk of heart attack and many types of cancer, stronger immune system). It is better for the animal and can be better for you, so why not go vegetarian? Many vegans and vegetarians are healthy, if not healthier, than people who eat meat. On average, vegetarians and vegans live six to ten years longer than those who eat meat. Another misconception is that people think it is natural to eat meat. Without cooking meat, we get sick; how is that natural? And how is it natural if we have to use weapons to capture and kill animals? It would be one thing if a person went into the wild, strangled an animal, and ate it, but that does not usually happen; we go to the grocery store and pick it up after it has been stripped of its skin, feathers, eyes, brains, and other body parts so it seems as if it is any other type of food. Eating meat is one thing, but the way many animals are treated before they die is absolutely horrible. In most farms, animals are confined to tiny cages their entire lives where they can barely move. Chickens cannot flap their wings, nonetheless turn around; it’s the same for other animals. The animals are also injected with artificial hormones to make them larger, but this often results in the animal being so weighed down that it cannot support its body and collapses. Their living conditions are often so unsuitable that they are given antibiotics to keep them alive so they can be killed for meat later on. Not only are the conditions of animals horrible for them, but the hormones and antibiotics we inject them with could have negative effects on us. After living (well, not really living) miserable lives in filthy farms, they are thrown (yes, thrown like an object) into crowded trucks to bring them to the slaughterhouse; some do not even survive on the way because the conditions are so terrible. Upon arrival, many of the animal’s throats are slit as they are fully conscious. The horns of a cattle are ripped out, the beaks and toes of turkeys are burned off with a hot blade. Is the pain an animal endures really worth that steak or hot dog? Tell me how to improve my arguement and what i should change. Thanks in advance and sorry this was long more

Resolved Question: Is being a vegan wise ... or simply compassionate?

“From everything I’ve read, egg and hog operations are the worst. Beef cattle in America at least still live outdoors, albeit standing ankle deep in their own waste eating a diet that makes them sick. And broiler chickens…at least don’t spend their eight-week lives in cages too small to ever stretch a wing. That fate is reserved for the American laying hen, who passes her brief span piled together with a half-dozen other hens in a wire cage whose floor a single page of this [New York Times] magazine could carpet. Every natural instinct of this animal is thwarted, leading to a range of behavioral ‘vices’ that can include cannibalizing her cagemates and rubbing her body against the wire mesh until it is featherless and bleeding.… [T]he 10 percent or so of hens that can’t bear it and simply die is built into the cost of production. And when the output of the others begins to ebb, the hens will be ‘force-molted’—starved of food and water and light for several days in order to stimulate a final bout of egg laying before their life’s work is done.… Many breeding sows spend their adult lives in gestation and farrowing stalls where they cannot turn around (click for larger image; courtesy of PETA). “Piglets in confinement operations are weaned from their mothers 10 days after birth (compared with 13 weeks in nature) because they gain weight faster on their hormone- and antibiotic-fortified feed. This premature weaning leaves the pigs with a lifelong craving to suck and chew, a desire they gratify in confinement by biting the tail of the animal in front of them. A normal pig would fight off his molester, but a demoralized pig has stopped caring. ‘Learned helplessness’ is the psychological term, and it’s not uncommon in confinement operations, where tens of thousands of hogs spend their entire lives ignorant of sunshine or earth or straw, crowded together beneath a metal roof upon metal slats suspended over a manure pit. So it’s not surprising that an animal as sensitive and intelligent as a pig would get depressed, and a depressed pig will allow his tail to be chewed on to the point of infection. Sick pigs, being underperforming ‘production units,’ are clubbed to death on the spot. The USDA’s recommended solution to the problem is called ‘tail docking.’ Using a pair of pliers (and no anesthetic), most but not all of the tail is snipped off. Why the little stump? Because the whole point of the exercise is not to remove the object of tail-biting so much as to render it more sensitive. Now, a bite on the tail is so painful that even the most demoralized pig will mount a struggle to avoid it.… “More than any other institution, the American industrial animal farm offers a nightmarish glimpse of what capitalism can look like in the absence of moral or regulatory constraint. Here in these places life itself is redefined—as protein production—and with it suffering. That venerable word becomes ‘stress,’ an economic problem in search of a cost-effective solution, like tail-docking or beak-clipping or, in the industry’s latest plan, by simply engineering the ‘stress gene’ out of pigs and chickens. Our own worst nightmare such a place may well be; it is also real life for the billions of animals unlucky enough to have been born beneath these grim steel roofs, into the brief, pitiless life of a ‘production unit’ in the days before the suffering gene was found.” How very sad ... would you do this to an animal? veganoutreach.org more

Resolved Question: Could antibiotics used in animal feed elicit anaphylactic reactions in people with IgE demonstrated allergies?

I would suspect one of two things to happen: Sensitization, perhaps directly relate-able to the sub-therapeutic levels present in farmed animals, but, depending on type of allergy, perhaps these quantities would be enough to elicit *some* reaction. But, what? Another possibility is that the processing and cooking of meats may transform what may already be negligible amounts of antibiotic (present in the flesh of animals) into something which is no longer an "antibiotic", and by consequence, an allergen. I have only skimmed a few really old studies on this, but, nothing recent, and nothing with a half decent N nor a good methodology. Sooo, what say you? Yeh? Neh? Any evidence to support or refute these contentions would be very much appreciated :-) :-). [I have also posted this Q in the Medicine section of Y!A, but no answers, yet, so figured I'd post it here with better luck ;-)]Thanx heyonah :-) :-). Was wondering if I'd get any answers. You make some good points. What you've written makes sense.One of the older studies I found: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8212508?ordinalpos=4&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum With the increase in factory farming, one would think there would be many recent sources, with different twists, but I have yet to find anything new...Specifically to do with penicillin. A little more recent: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17078804?ordinalpos=11&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum more

Resolved Question: Could antibiotics used in animal feed elicit anaphylactic reactions in people with IgE demonstrated allergies?

Resolved Question: Please voice an opinion on monsanto , corn ethics and antibiotic debate. Read Below. Please and Thank you : ]?

Being able to extract DNA has led to technologies that can combine two different organisms DNA together. For example, there is a variety of corn that is able to produce antibiotics that can be extracted for everyday use (Penicillin was originally extracted from bread mould). The company that produced this corn is currently involved in a number of lawsuits, as the pollen from the corn that produced the antibiotics was able to fertilize neighbouring farmers corn. The result is corn that could be given to farm animals for feed, or sent to grocery stores for people to eat. i. Whose fault was it that antibiotic corn ended up in local farms that were not involved in the lawsuit? ii. What are the ecological consequences and or benefits of an antibiotic being produced in a wind pollinated crop? iii. What are the health care consequences and or benefits of producing antibiotics in corn? iv. What are the economic and political considerations around using a transgenic crop such as corn that produces antibiotics? more

Resolved Question: Science and ethics question on corn , antibiotics , and Monsanto. Please help . :) Thanks ?

Being able to extract DNA has led to technologies that can combine two different organisms DNA together. For example, there is a variety of corn that is able to produce antibiotics that can be extracted for everyday use (Penicillin was originally extracted from bread mould). The company that produced this corn is currently involved in a number of lawsuits, as the pollen from the corn that produced the antibiotics was able to fertilize neighbouring farmers corn. The result is corn that could be given to farm animals for feed, or sent to grocery stores for people to eat. i.Whose fault was it that antibiotic corn ended up in local farms that were not involved in the lawsuit? ii.What are the ecological consequences and or benefits of an antibiotic being produced in a wind pollinated crop? iii.What are the health care consequences and or benefits of producing antibiotics in corn? iv.What are the economic and political considerations around using a transgenic crop such as corn that produces antibiotics? more

Resolved Question: DNA and antibiotc Corn. Please Help. Thank you :)?

Being able to extract DNA has led to technologies that can combine two different organisms DNA together. For example, there is a variety of corn that is able to produce antibiotics that can be extracted for everyday use (Penicillin was originally extracted from bread mould). The company that produced this corn is currently involved in a number of lawsuits, as the pollen from the corn that produced the antibiotics was able to fertilize neighbouring farmers corn. The result is corn that could be given to farm animals for feed, or sent to grocery stores for people to eat. i.Whose fault was it that antibiotic corn ended up in local farms that were not involved in the lawsuit? ii.What are the ecological consequences and or benefits of an antibiotic being produced in a wind pollinated crop? iii.What are the health care consequences and or benefits of producing antibiotics in corn? iv.What are the economic and political considerations around using a transgenic crop such as corn that produces antibiotics? more

Resolved Question: Whose fault was it that antibiotic corn ended up in local farms that were not involved in the lawsuit?

3.Being able to extract DNA has led to technologies that can combine two different organisms DNA together. For example, there is a variety of corn that is able to produce antibiotics that can be extracted for everyday use (Penicillin was originally extracted from bread mould). The company that produced this corn is currently involved in a number of lawsuits, as the pollen from the corn that produced the antibiotics was able to fertilize neighbouring farmers corn. The result is corn that could be given to farm animals for feed, or sent to grocery stores for people to eat. So ..Whose fault was it that antibiotic corn ended up in local farms that were not involved in the lawsuit? more

Resolved Question: Question for owners of senior aged horses?

I'm an experienced horse owner. I've owned horses for over 30 years. I currently own 9 horses. I'm moving from one state, to another state. All the animals have been transported, except my senior aged horse. He's a 30 year old Morgan. Last winter he was a chronic founder problem, foundering 5-6 times in a row (it was not his feed, my Vet said it was because of his age, and just his body does not work as well as it use to). His feet are still tenderish, but he can stand all day long now (in his small pasture). He is extremely thin (again completely age related). This is not a question about his diet. He is under Vet care, and receives a very good diet, with food at his nose 24/7. I'm stating he's thin, because he has no body fat to pad him for bumps and bruises the trailer ride might cause. He's also recieving a cup of canola oil on his senior ration every day, to help put weight on him, and to make sure his insides are well "greased up" to help prevent any chance of cholic during the two day trip. The drive from one farm to the next is about 1000 miles. It is a two day journey. I have bute (horse aspirin), a thick blanket, pine shavings to put a thick layer in the trailer (should he fall down). He will of course have his senior food, his hay, and the water he is use to available for the entire two day journey. I also have fly wipe, and a horse first aid kit with antibiotic cream, and bandages. As a the owner of a senior horse, or someone who has traveled a very long distance over several days with horses before what else might you do for the comfort and well being of your horse? Thank you for any tips you might have. ~Garnet I've had to put horses down before who have reached the end of their life. The horse in question has NOT yet reached the end of his life. He still finds joy and pleasure in life, and does not have constant pain. I've owned this horse for 28 years. He and I understand each other well. He has not yet told me it's time to let him go. You wouldn't euthinize your grandpa just because he was thin, had trouble chewing his food, and his feet ached at times. You'd make him comfortable. This is a question about how to make this horse comfortable for this trip...not when I should, or should not euthanize him. In answer to the other question, no, unfortunatly there is no stopping for several days rest mid point. I wish there were a way to do so, but there is not. It is possible however my husband and I may push ourselves very hard, and make the drive in one day.Vet said no to Cushings disease, when I had bloodwork done on him. He's only had problems with keeping weight on these past two years. Just old age. He's very good in the trailer, not nervous like some horses. He's going in a four horse trailer. The back half of the trailer will have the four of the farm dogs (the herding dog will ride with me). He will have the front half of the trailer to himself. I appreciate the offer of a place to stop for the night! We will probably be driving to, and stopping in Ellensburg however. No other horse to trailer with him. Because he lost condition, the other horses started to pick on him. He's been separated from them for quiet some time now. At least when he arrives in WA, it will be to a farm he knows. He will also be reunited with a mare he loves, who is only 6 months different in age. Difficult trip with a horse this elderly, but he'll be thrilled to be back at the farm in WA. more

Resolved Question: Are they going to quit giving farm raised animals fluoroquinolones now that they have "black boxed?"

Recently Cipro, Levaquin and a few other fluoroquinolone class antibiotics had their label changed because of really bad side effects. Are they going to quit using this class of antibiotics in our meat source? more

Resolved Question: Antibiotics? Yes? No???????????????

i want to know some more about antibiotics -what purposes are antibiotics used for? -why have some antibiotics stopped working as effectively? -what other ways can cure illnesses besides antibiotics? -why are antibiotics given to farm animals -should antibiotics be given to animals and sprayed on fruits and vegetables? - what would happen if all the antibiotics stopped working? - what has caused an increased resistance to some antibiotics throughout the world? can someone help me find sites with more information.? more

Resolved Question: Why do people over-use antiobiotics?

They're injected into animals we eat, sprayed on plants in farms, in 99.9% of soaps and 100% of all hand-sanitizers, and over-prescribed by doctors or over-used as over-the-counter medications. Is no one aware this will cause resistant strains of bacteria so we won't be able to treat them in the future? Why do people overuse antibiotics? more

Resolved Question: Food Choices?

1) Do you mind pesticides used in conventional food? 2) Do you know what irridation is? 3) Do you agree with factory farming of animals? 4) Do you believe pesticides, antibiotics, and added hormones are hazardous to one's health? 5) Do you believe pesticides, antibiotics, and added hormones, and the way animals are kept on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations hazardous toward the environment? 6) Would you switch to organic foods if you found there was scientific evidence that it was healthier than regular conventional food? 7) Would you pay the extra cost of organic food? If so, would you like to see it become more industrialized? 8) Critical Thinking: What do you believe is the reason for a demand in organic food vs. regular industrialized food? 9) Would you advocate organic food as the regular industrialized food? what if it meant paying extra for food? 10) Finally, do you affiliate moral obligations with the design of food choices? more

Resolved Question: Food Choices?

Please help me with my research paper regarding the difference between food choices, namely organic vs. regular industrialized food. 1) Do you mind pesticides used in conventional food? 2) Do you know what <i>irridation</i> is? 3) Do you agree with factory farming of animals? 4) Do you believe pesticides, antibiotics, and added hormones are hazardous to one's health? 5) Do you believe pesticides, antibiotics, and added hormones, and the way animals are kept on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations hazardous toward the environment? 6) Would you switch to organic foods if you found there was scientific evidence that it was healthier than regular conventional food? 7) Would you pay the extra cost of organic food? If so, would you like to see it become more industrialized? 8) <i>Critical Thinking</i>: What do you believe is the reason for a demand in organic food vs. regular industrialized food? 9) Would you advocate organic food as the regular industrialized food? what if it meant paying extra for food? 10) Finally, do you affiliate moral obligations with the design of food choices? Thank you for helping me research my topic: Organic vs. Industrial. Please leave your name if you don't mind being quoted: more

Resolved Question: justify the wide spread use of antibiotics on farm animals and fruits +vegetables?

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Resolved Question: What do you think of this article?? truth or fiction...?

FACTORY FARMED CHICKEN Almost all chicken meat in the United States is produced through the "factory farming" system, in which animals are closely crowded together in filthy, disease-ridden conditions. Because of these unhealthy conditions, many chickens die even before they get to the slaughterhouse. For example, in an operation with 100,000 broiler chickens, approximately 250 birds die per day. Before being caught for the trip to the slaughterhouse, food and water are withdrawn; at the slaughterhouse, birds wait in trucks another 1 to 9 hours to be killed, sometimes in very hot or very cold weather. Chicken is far worse than beef in terms of contamination and bacteria. The Atlanta Constitution reported in 1991: "Every week throughout the South, millions of chickens leaking yellow pus, stained by green feces, contaminated by harmful bacteria, or marred by lung and heart infections, cancerous tumors or skin conditions are shipped to consumers." Salmonella is present in over one-third of all chickens, and many millions of Americans are infected each year. The symptoms of salmonella poisoning are very similar to the flu (though only occasionally fatal), and thus many who are infected may never even be aware of what they have. To prevent these problems, chickens are usually heavily dosed with antibiotics (more than half of all antibiotic use in the U. S. is on factory farms!), but this indiscriminate use of antibiotics in turn helps create resistant strains of salmonella and other disease-causing germs, decreasing the effectiveness of antibiotics to fight human infections. HEART DISEASE, CANCER, AND MEDICAL COSTS And even if bacterial contamination were eliminated, we still have the tremendous problems of heart disease and cancer, the leading causes of death in the United States. Repeated efforts to lower cholesterol levels through switching from beef to chicken have ended in failure. Chicken is somewhat lower in fat than beef, but it still contains quite a bit of fat and even more cholesterol per calorie than does beef or pork. Moreover, meat which is lower in fat is always higher in protein, and excess protein is damaging to health just as is excess fat. Chicken which has 29% of its calories as fat contains 71% of its calories as protein, while ground beef which has 49% of calories of fat has 51% of its calories as protein. In terms of excess protein consumption chicken is worse than beef or pork. Problems caused by or related to excess protein consumption include kidney stones, kidney disease, osteoporosis, bladder cancer, and lymphoma. Chicken meat also completely lacks fiber; lack of fiber is linked to a variety of digestive disorders ranging from constipation to colon cancer. The three basic problems with our American-style diet—too much fat, too much protein, and lack of fiber—are thus all made worse by chicken consumption. Those who switch from beef to chicken are at best trading one set of health hazards for a different set. Chicken has done little for the nation's health. In the past twenty-five years, we have seen a huge increase in poultry consumption; but health care expenditures during the same period showed phenomenal growth, now costing us hundreds of billions of dollars each year in the United States. The "switch" from beef to chicken has evidently had little, if any, effect on rising medical costs. ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS Raising chickens affects the environment as well. Feeding grain to chicken may be somewhat less inefficient than feeding grain to cattle, but it is still wasteful—you must feed at least three times the amount of protein, calories, and other nutrients to the chickens in the form of plant foods than you retrieve in animal flesh at the end. Each year millions of children die due to malnutrition or starvation, and yet the Western countries continue to waste this grain by creating more and more chicken flesh. Moreover, chicken production results in incredible quantities of manure; a one-million hen complex produces 125 tons of wet manure each day. Animal agriculture in the U. S. produces many times more waste products than humans do. In many areas of the country livestock manure causes dangerous contamination of the drinking water due to nitrates. Even when used as a plant fertilizer, chicken manure can cause difficulties, as in Texas several years ago when cantaloupe fertilized with chicken manure caused sickness in human beings. The fault lay not with the cantaloupe but with the disease-ridden chicken manure. COMPASSION FOR ANIMALS And what about the effect of the "factory farming" system on the animals themselves? Over 7.5 billion birds are killed each year in the United States. We would probably like to believe that these animals at least lived fairly comfortable lives until they were taken to the slaughterhouse, and would also like to believe that chickens are then quickly and painlessly killed. Unfortunately, this is not true. Chickens are crowded together in cramped, windowless sheds, and must breathe concentrated excretory ammonia fumes which damage their eyes and lungs. They are mutilated by "debeaking"—the practice of cutting off most of the chicken's beak when the chicken is young. The reason for "debeaking" is that without it, chickens in their cramped circumstances would peck each other and even attack and kill each other. Obviously, a chicken which needs to be "debeaked" in the first place is not a happy chicken; and the process of debeaking (akin to partial amputation of a human finger, without anesthesia) is quite painful in itself. Birds are deliberately bred to gain more weight than their legs and feet can support, leading to more pain. Turkey production is no better than chicken production. Turkeys, like chickens, are kept in intensely overcrowded quarters; they must be heavily dosed with antibiotics, are subject to many diseases, and have their beaks and their toes partially amputated (without anaesthetic, of course). Turkeys over the years have been bred to be fatter and fatter; today's turkey is so overweight that it cannot mate and must be bred through artificial insemination. "Humanely raised" poultry avoids some of the worst abuses, such as debeaking and overcrowding. But chickens and turkeys are still killed long before their natural lifespan has elapsed, and it still is not a healthful food, as meat from any chicken or turkey—no matter how "humanely" raised—is going to be high in fat or protein (or both), and completely lacking in fiber. Chickens do not die easy deaths, either. The "humane slaughter" laws do not cover chicken or any other poultry. Slaughterhouses are operated as mechanical "disassembly" lines with as little human intervention as possible. Stunning devices are not required by law, and even where used only 1/3 of the chickens are effectively stunned. Some chickens have their throats slit and bleed to death while fully conscious. Millions of unfortunate chickens also escape the automatic knives that slit their throats, and thus go into the next stage—the scalding tank—alive and fully conscious. more

Resolved Question: Do you have a false sense of security about your food?

I did until allergies forced me to research it more. Do you assume that because a product is available for purchase that it came from a clean factory? Or that preservative, dyes, chemicals, and additives are okay, because the FDA says they are ok. Do you ASSUME that your meats, milk, and other animal goods come from farms that use humane treatment of animals and do not use growth hormones, steroids, and antibiotics in their meat and milk? I always just assumed if I could buy it in a store, it must be okay. Oh, how wrong I was. I wonder who else thinks that way Do you read labels and wonder about the ingredients? more

Resolved Question: How can meat eaters be against hunting?

There are many people who eat meat yet are against hunting and to me this is extremely illogical. They'll eat a tied up animal that was killed in an enclosed place whith no chance to escape, but despise someone who gets off their ass and must actually work and think and study and use all their skills to bring meat home. Not only that, but wild meat is SO much better for you (and actually very good for you) than the farmed, imprisoned animals that are pumped full of antibiotics, hormones, and chemicals and are kiled when the animal is at its maximum fatness. THOSE are the animals people should feel sorry for. Also, wild animal populations are closely watched and hunting is regulated by biologists. No one is allowed to hunt an endangered species! And poaching is NOT hunting. Well, I'm interested to hear your responses anyway.For the record, I hunt with a birch longbow that I made myself. It's sad how I have to defend something as pure and wholesome as hunting. To me, hunting is about participaing in nature, not just observing it. I honor the animals by hunting it, not just slaughtering it. I honor the earth by living in equilibrium with nature. I know more about these animals than any anti hunter out there. I've actually spent time living among them as a fellow animal, and I love them all. Without them, my life is nothing, and the world would be a very sad place. For all of you who would rather do your hunting in a grocery aisle, well, happy hunting then, but don't decry the much more honest and honorable thing that is hunting. If civilization ever falls (and it will) you are going to be one of the many that won't survive and will leave the world to the people who never forgot to honor our ancestors and that we are still biologically hunter gatherers. more

Resolved Question: What chemicals and hormones are in meats?

I hear a lot of people saying that one of the reasons they avoid eating meat is because of all the chemicals and hormones that are injected into the animals, but what places do this? I grew up on a farm we had around 100 head of cattle, and I have an uncle with around 300. Neither of us give our animals drugs. We might give them antibiotics for a couple of days when they are less than 6 months old and visibly ill. I've never seen a cow older than 6 months sick and when they are little they stay with their mother or at least get real cows milk. Why? because mother's milk works a lot better than drugs to keep the young calf healthy. Drugs are expensive, I wouldn't think farmers would want the expensive of pumping animals with drugs, so is this really true that it's done or is it just vegan hype? Or is it just done on a few farms and that is where they are siting the drug use? Don't site ethic reasons to be vegan, give me examples of actual farms that practice drug use that could harm us.Again I want to know actual farms that use hormones and drugs and what they are. Or if you are a farmer that does, explain the benifits of doing so. more

Resolved Question: Is the FDA tampering with survival of the human race with its approval of Viral additives in our food supply?

The FDA has approved a viral cocktail to be sprayed on our foods. Viruses have been approved for use as food additives and a host of virally contaminated foods will be entering our food supply. Live viruses will be sprayed on cold cuts, sausages, hot dogs, sliced turkey, and chicken. Greedy corporations plan to use one infectious organism to fight another. Bacteria will ingest the bacteriophages resulting in massive viral replication inside the bacteria, until it bursts. This virus and the bacteria's defensively produced endotoxins will end up in your digestive tract where it may infect normal bacterial cells needed there. At issue is FDA-approved multi-national fast-food animal farms full of diseased and sickly animals that now require more than the heavy use of antibiotics during growth and radiation during food processing. Our immune system are highly reactive and sensitive to bacterial endotoxins. How do you like the idea of buying virus-infested food for your family? more

Resolved Question: What's the technical name for my diet?

(to clarify the last question I asked...) I used to be a vegetarian and now I eat mostly a vegetarian diet but have just recently decided to add in meat on a very occasional basis, and ONLY if it's ORGANIC (no hormones/antibiotics/etc.) (I now buy my meat from an nearby independent organic farm run under different practices for the animals, no hormones/ants., etc.) I understand that this no longer makes me a vegetarian. My question is: What is the technical name, if there is one? (P.S. If you see "vegetarian" in here, you don't need to get all up in arms. I realize I am no longer a vegetarian, but the question was and remains, is there a technical term for "vegetarian" for this way of eating? Please don't answer if you're not going to read the question. Thank you. :) more

Resolved Question: Would you go back to eating meat if no animals had to die for it?

It sounds like sci-fi, but there was an article in the July/Aug issue of Vegetarian Times that discussed a method developed by a vegetarian doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland. Using three muscle cells taken from a live cow (by needle) and nourishing them in the lab in a broth of glucose, amino acids and minerals, he has been able to encourage them to reproduce. After a few weeks, a sheet of the meat can be peeled off and ground up into hamburger. Growing meat this way could conceivably put a dent in factory farming and reduce the number of animals slaughtered every year. It’s also purported to be safer because there’s no “need” to treat the animal with antibiotics, steroids and hormones and it could eliminate the threat of mad cow disease. So… would you go back to eating meat if no animals had to die for it? Or are your other reasons for going veg compelling enough to keep you veg?Thank SO much for all the sarcastic, rude answers. This is the *vegetarian* section, not the *insult vegetarians* section and this is a serious question. I'd like to know what actual vegetarians think about this.To ebenevides: I agree personally that it doesn't sound appealing. Since you listed peta's website as a source, I thought you might be interested to know that Ingrid Newkirk has called it "one of the most exciting developments ever." more

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