Antibiotics Discovered in Crops Treated with Manure

Crops fertilized with manure from livestock treated with antibiotics absorbed trace amounts of the drugs, sparking health concerns about increased antibiotic resistance.

[Plato]

It's impossible to eat any pure food anymore--it's all tainted. I'd go live in a cave, but the water table of the nearby stream is probably already poisoned.

[asmallfarmer]

dont believe all the hype find a small farmer in your area who grows produce and it probaly wont have antibiotics pesticide or any other residue. these articles fail to mention the large scale super farms where most of this tainted stuff comes from

[benjamin bernanke]

Who's to say manure isn't delicous? People are too closed minded.

[Joyce K]

asmallfarmer wrote:

dont believe all the hype find a small farmer in your area who grows produce and it probaly wont have antibiotics pesticide or any other residue. these articles fail to mention the large scale super farms where most of this tainted stuff comes from

Well, yes, it's not manure itself that's the problem, it's specifically manure that comes from cattle that have been pumped full of antibiotics.

It just serves as yet more proof that everything is interconnected, and when you do one thing it affects many others. All the more reason we need tighter regulations on the farming and meat production industries - too many large corporations are willing to cut too many seemingly harmless corners, and we all suffer the unintended results.

[Rob]

This is the way it works. We cannot be blind to the fact that these things will stick around in different forms and affect us no matter what form they may come in.

[Janet]

Antibiotics cannot be escaped! They are taking over the world.

[BettyB]

I miss being able to have a garden of my own.

[asmallfarmer]

as long as universities and farm bureau cater to these large corporate farms then it will be an uphill fight to get anything changed. politicians are too quick to go to these "experts" when it comes to writing the farm bills and that is what shapes the future of agriculture

[Sooper]

Antibiotics, hormones and lack of taste, oh my!

[Wyoming Man]

benjamin bernanke wrote:

Who's to say manure isn't delicous? People are too closed minded.

I can assure you, it is not. Don't ask...

[What]

Why are we giving cows antibiotics? Just kill them. No antibiotics, kill the whole lot.

[benny]

yet another reason to go local--and this article does mention that.

[sasha]

asmallfarmer wrote:

dont believe all the hype find a small farmer in your area who grows produce and it probaly wont have antibiotics pesticide or any other residue. these articles fail to mention the large scale super farms where most of this tainted stuff comes from

or grow your own food! gardens are great.

[Uncle B]

I thought the "Jig" was up when the Asian non-hormone milk or meat fed girls at the Olympics appeared so young, immature compared to American standards, yet were of proven ages! We have a whole generation of under-aged over-sexed and very confused children to deal with and this is not healthy or normal! These children no longer fit the "norms" of our own society! They do not fit the school structures, job structures, of any other social structures we have! This is the disaster, we wish not to admit! America's forbidden topic! We are doomed to accommodating little girls who want to procreate, and are capable to do so at ages before their psyches can cope! We have poisoned our own system this way! God Bless America? Hell No! God save Americans from themselves!

[qqq]

wala me pake alam!!!!