{"id":745,"date":"2012-05-15T08:48:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T12:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=745"},"modified":"2012-05-15T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T12:48:22","slug":"better-living-through-chemistry-contd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/better-living-through-chemistry-contd\/","title":{"rendered":"Better living through chemistry (cont’d)…."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a problem that apparently is growing: the wholesale use of antibiotics is causing drug resistant immunities to build-up in humans as well as animals.\u00a0 We just can’t depend on drugs to battle disease as we once did.\u00a0 E.coli is one of them.<\/p>\n

Industrial agriculture is based on antibiotics.\u00a0 All commercial animals…cattle, chicken and pigs…are fed them routinely as a preventative.\u00a0 They have to, because in the way they are raised, they’d die otherwise.\u00a0 So you get them too, whether you’re buying meat at the supermarket, a restaurant or McDonald’s.\u00a0 More than that, those cows you see gracing lovely landscapes (unless you’re looking at Thistle Hill and similar farms), are excreting those antibiotics onto the land and then into the streams and rivers.<\/p>\n

And yes, meat can be labeled organic and the cow or chicken involved could well have received antibiotics.\u00a0 Once again, it all comes back to “know your farmer”.\u00a0 But you can be sure that if you’re buying your meat\u00a0through the usual channels (a careful choice of words) you are getting not only antibiotics but pesticides and herbicides.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/763657?sssdmh=dm1.783490&src=nldne<\/a><\/p>\n

They’ve found that antibiotics have one other feature: they cause animals to gain weight.\u00a0 Any chance that’s a factor in our obesity epidemic?\u00a0 All young animals have worms, of course, which limit growth.\u00a0 But that can be treated naturally.<\/p>\n

Not in big operations, though.\u00a0 In commercial farms, they use what’s called a “pour on”; that is, cattle go through a chute on a regular basis and a poison is poured on their back.\u00a0 It just happens to be a nerve agent….attacks the spinal cord.\u00a0 The poisoned worms just wind up on the ground.\u00a0 They’re dead; but the poison winds up in other animals and again, in the water supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a problem that apparently is growing: the wholesale use of antibiotics is causing drug resistant immunities to build-up in humans as well as animals.\u00a0 We just can’t depend on drugs to battle disease as we once did.\u00a0 E.coli is one of them. Industrial agriculture is based on antibiotics.\u00a0 All commercial animals…cattle, chicken and pigs…are fed them routinely as a preventative.\u00a0 They have to, because in the way they are raised, they’d die otherwise.\u00a0 So you get them too, whether you’re buying meat at the supermarket, a restaurant or McDonald’s.\u00a0 More than that, those cows you see gracing lovely landscapes (unless you’re looking at Thistle Hill and similar farms), are excreting those antibiotics onto the land and then into the streams and rivers. And yes, meat can be labeled organic and the cow or chicken involved could well have received antibiotics.\u00a0 Once again, it all comes back to “know your farmer”.\u00a0 But you can be sure that if you’re buying your meat\u00a0through the usual channels (a careful choice of words) you are getting not only antibiotics but pesticides and herbicides. http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/763657?sssdmh=dm1.783490&src=nldne They’ve found that antibiotics have one other feature: they cause animals to gain weight.\u00a0 Any chance that’s a factor in our obesity epidemic?\u00a0 All young animals have worms, of course, which limit growth.\u00a0 But that can be treated naturally. Not in big operations, though.\u00a0 In commercial farms, they use what’s called a “pour on”; that is, cattle go through a chute on a regular basis and a poison is poured on their back.\u00a0 It just happens to be a nerve agent….attacks the spinal cord.\u00a0 The poisoned worms just wind up on the ground.\u00a0 They’re dead; but the poison winds up in other animals and again, in the water supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,22,9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-food","category-health","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}