UK gardening - Re: Antibiotic use in pigs *Pete*

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Re: Antibiotic use in pigs *Pete*

2007-06-26, 9:25 am

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:50:45 +0100, "Pat Gardiner"
<patgardiner@btinternet.com> wrote:

>Pat's Note: This sentence is appearing everywhere in various forms and
>originating from the Soil Association's recent report.
>
>I'm pretty certain it is incorrect.
>
>"Despite an EU-wide ban on growth-promoting antibiotics added to animal
>feed, similar quantities of antibiotics are simply being prescribed by vets
>for disease prevention. "
>
>The situation is actually far worse if Viva are to be believed, and I see no
>reason not to believe them.
>
>Some time ago they produced figures from official sources that showed an
>increase in antibiotic use, but across a diminished national herd. I
>commented at the time.
>
>I can well recall that Viva, wrongly in my opinion, attributed the increase
>to illegal antibiotic use as growth promoters.
>
>Actually, it was being legally prescribed but to keep PMWS-Circovirus sick
>pigs alive long enough to get them to the food chain.
>
>Could *Pete* whoever he is get some up to date reliable stats over say the
>past eight years? It should be possible to position these against the
>published figures for pig populations and see if the use or abuse of
>antibiotics is still increasing.

There are lots of figures out there for misuse antibiotics, no wonder
human health has suffered so much if you're a meat eater.

http://www.octagon-services.co.uk/a...etracycline.htm

lots more interesting stuff here

http://www.octagon-services.co.uk/index.htm#articles

>That is one of the things I find most frustrating, belonging to neither the
>livestock/meat trade or the animal rights/welfare persuasions:
>
>Both frequently get the base facts right, but will only interpret them to
>mislead. Often it is by accident or natural bias. The hidden reality is
>often far more dangerous and serious than the interpretation.
>
>At the moment, the livestock media are presenting the Soil Association
>material as new, which it isn't and an indictment on imported meat, which it
>partly is, but also very misleading.
>
>The Soil Association were very slow catching onto existing published
>material and the livestock trade are attempting to evade the issue. The
>veterinarians, most of them, are in a blue funk.
>
>The major risk is right here in Britain right under our noses. Half the
>cases which Wendy Valentine had uncovered are not cruelty but covered up
>illness and epidemic - and pathetic attempts to deal with it, without
>attracting public attention.

Slowly but surely it's coming out

>The genuine cruelty cases eg Matthews are the result of inadequate
>management. If you employ half-wits, and leave them to their own devices,
>this is what you get.
>
>Anyway the turkey trade is in a mess. Matthews had their financial backing
>withdrawn and have had to borrow money from the Irish, pledging their assets
>as security

http://tinyurl.com/2r789l

http://tinyurl.com/36jok2
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PRAYER FOR A NATION

When Pastor Joe Wright, of Central Christian Church, was asked
to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting
the usual politically correct generalities.
But what they heard instead was this:

Heavenly Father, we come before You today to ask Your forgiveness
and seek your direction and guidance.
We know Your Word says,
‘Woe on those who call evil good,’ but that’s exactly what we have done.
We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values.

We confess that:

We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it pluralism;

We have, worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism;

We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle;

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery;

We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation;

We have killed our unborn and called it choice;

We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem;

We have abused power and called it political savvy;

We have coveted our neighbour’s possessions and called it ambition;

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression;

We have ridiculed the time-honoured values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us, 0 God, and know our hearts today; try us and see if there be some wicked way in us;
cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have
been sent here by the people of Kansas, and who have been ordained by You, to govern this great state.

Grant them Your wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the centre of Your will. I ask it in the name of Your Son, the Living Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.”

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2007-06-26, 9:25 am

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:18:46 +0100, "<0>+<0>"
<SloaneRanger@devnull.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:50:45 +0100, "Pat Gardiner"
><patgardiner@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>
>There are lots of figures out there for misuse antibiotics, no wonder
>human health has suffered so much if you're a meat eater.
>
>http://www.octagon-services.co.uk/a...etracycline.htm
>
>lots more interesting stuff here
>
>http://www.octagon-services.co.uk/index.htm#articles

and here back to 98

http://tinyurl.com/35v6o5

vmd
http://www.vmd.gov.uk/Publications/...ic/AntiPubs.htm

>
>
>
>Slowly but surely it's coming out
>
>
>
>http://tinyurl.com/2r789l
>
>http://tinyurl.com/36jok2

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Hansom <0>++<0>

Avoid the rush at the last judgement. Be converted now instead!

PRAYER FOR A NATION

When Pastor Joe Wright, of Central Christian Church, was asked
to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting
the usual politically correct generalities.
But what they heard instead was this:

Heavenly Father, we come before You today to ask Your forgiveness
and seek your direction and guidance.
We know Your Word says,
‘Woe on those who call evil good,’ but that’s exactly what we have done.
We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values.

We confess that:

We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it pluralism;

We have, worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism;

We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle;

We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery;

We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation;

We have killed our unborn and called it choice;

We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem;

We have abused power and called it political savvy;

We have coveted our neighbour’s possessions and called it ambition;

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression;

We have ridiculed the time-honoured values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us, 0 God, and know our hearts today; try us and see if there be some wicked way in us;
cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have
been sent here by the people of Kansas, and who have been ordained by You, to govern this great state.

Grant them Your wisdom to rule and may their decisions direct us to the centre of Your will. I ask it in the name of Your Son, the Living Saviour, Jesus Christ. Amen.”

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