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CowBoss
IONOPHORES ARE ANTIBIOTICS - Is your farmer feeding antibiotics to the animals that produce and are your food? DO NOT BE CONNED!
Do the Research, Ask the Questions KNOW Your Farmer, KNOW Your Food
The antibiotics the farm animals and fish are given is generically known as Ionophores, the trade names are many including Rumensin and the following: bambermycin (e.g., Flavomycin), lasalocid (e.g., Avatec), maduramicin (e.g., CYGRO), monensin (e.g., Coban, Elancogran), narasin (e.g., Maxiban), nystatin (e.g., Pharmastatin), salinomycin (e.g., BioCox, Sacox), semduramicin (e.g., Aviax)
CFIA clearly states that Ionophores are antibiotics *Health Canada's Veterinary Drug Directorate considers ionophores as antibiotics.
See;www.inspection.gc.ca/english/fssa/labeti/natall/instmpanie.shtm
Do You Really Want to Drink This Milk?
Canadians are told that "Canadian milk is one of the safest and most tested foods in the country"
However most all the conventional dairy cows in Canada are deemed by the Dairy Farmers of Canada to be sick all the time and thus are fed antibiotics daily or are given time release antibiotic boluses.
The antibiotic the cows are given is generically known as Ionophores, the trade names are many including Rumensin and the following:
bambermycin (e.g., Flavomycin)
lasalocid (e.g., Avatec)
maduramicin (e.g., CYGRO)
monensin (e.g., Coban, Elancogran)
narasin (e.g., Maxiban)
nystatin (e.g., Pharmastatin)
salinomycin (e.g., BioCox, Sacox)
semduramicin (e.g., Aviax)
CFIA clearly states that Ionophores are antibiotics *Health Canada's Veterinary Drug Directorate considers ionophores as antibiotics.
www.inspection.gc.ca/english/fssa/labeti/natall/instmpanie.shtml
The question to ask yourself is whether you really want to be drinking that milk?
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CowBoss: Could it be that the new GMO rennet that is used in 90% of all the cheese made today just doesn't give a damn about antibiotics in the milk lol just say'in. You have most likely heard of Roundup Ready crops, this is Antibiotic Ready Rennet (ARR) http://centralcoop.coop/index.php?page=rennet
John: I recall hearing about constant adjusting of culture to maximize its effectiveness. Mind, changing clotting agent away from sources in the gut may allow more exotic variations. That constant onsite culture prep based on milk analysis compares with rotation of commercial cultures on a fixed basis - depending on cheese variety - which was previous practice designed to combat phage build-up. Running plants constantly removed time to starve them.
The industrialization - and brutalization - of animals in America is a relatively new, evitable, and local phenomenon: No other country raises and slaughters its food animals quite as intently or as brutally as we do. No other people in history has lived at quite so great a remove from animals they eat. Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals they way we do. Tail docking and sow crates and beak clipping would disappear overnight, and the days of slaughtering four hundred head of cattle an hour would promptly come to an end- for who would stand the sight? Yes, meat would get more expensive. We'd probably eat less of it, too, when we did eat animals we'd eat them with the consciousness, ceremony, and respect they deserve.
Michael Pollan, "The Ominovore's Dilemma", page 333
Michael Pollan, "The Ominovore's Dilemma", page 333
“Michael Pollan likens consumer choices to pulling single threads out of a garment. We pull a thread from the garment when we refuse to purchase eggs or meat from birds who were raised in confinement, whose beaks were clipped so they could never once taste their natural diet of worms and insects. We pull out a thread when we refuse to bring home a hormone-fattened turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. We pull a thread when we refuse to buy meat or dairy products from cows who were never allowed to chew grass, or breathe fresh air, or feel the warm sun on their backs.
The more threads we pull, the more difficult it is for the industry to stay intact. You demand eggs and meat without hormones, and the industry will have to figure out how it can raise farm animals without them. Let the animals graze outside and it slows production. Eventually the whole thing will have to unravel.
If the factory farm does indeed unravel - and it must - then there is hope that we can, gradually, reverse the environmental damage it has caused. Once the animal feed operations have gone and livestock are once again able to graze, there will be a massive reduction in the agricultural chemicals currently used to grow grain for animals. And eventually, the horrendous contamination caused by animal waste can be cleaned up. None of this will be easy.
The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people around the world. But we must try. We must make a start, one by one.”
― Jane Goodall, Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
The more threads we pull, the more difficult it is for the industry to stay intact. You demand eggs and meat without hormones, and the industry will have to figure out how it can raise farm animals without them. Let the animals graze outside and it slows production. Eventually the whole thing will have to unravel.
If the factory farm does indeed unravel - and it must - then there is hope that we can, gradually, reverse the environmental damage it has caused. Once the animal feed operations have gone and livestock are once again able to graze, there will be a massive reduction in the agricultural chemicals currently used to grow grain for animals. And eventually, the horrendous contamination caused by animal waste can be cleaned up. None of this will be easy.
The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people around the world. But we must try. We must make a start, one by one.”
― Jane Goodall, Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
Sue Cross on Huff Post
"Farm animal welfare activists argue that factory farming causes cruelty on a massive scale. But it makes no difference. The mass production of farm animals intensifies unremittingly, supported by consumers who buy its products. Yet as the bulk use of antibiotics encourages resistant bacteria to thrive, intensive farming practices become ever more deadly. Outbreaks of new strains of disease seem a certainty. The prospect of a pandemic that reaches global proportions seems more a question of when rather than if. And then the eruption of disease of global proportions will surely do what the animal welfare activists cannot: put an end to factory farming."
Sue Cross, You are wrong - Period. Consumer awareness and consumers voting for the ethical treatment of farm animals with their food dollars will end factory farming. Will it be before or after the "eruption of disease of global proportions" remains the only question.
"Farm animal welfare activists argue that factory farming causes cruelty on a massive scale. But it makes no difference. The mass production of farm animals intensifies unremittingly, supported by consumers who buy its products. Yet as the bulk use of antibiotics encourages resistant bacteria to thrive, intensive farming practices become ever more deadly. Outbreaks of new strains of disease seem a certainty. The prospect of a pandemic that reaches global proportions seems more a question of when rather than if. And then the eruption of disease of global proportions will surely do what the animal welfare activists cannot: put an end to factory farming."
Sue Cross, You are wrong - Period. Consumer awareness and consumers voting for the ethical treatment of farm animals with their food dollars will end factory farming. Will it be before or after the "eruption of disease of global proportions" remains the only question.
Why Everyone Should Be Angry About Factory Farming
One thing we should all be able to agree upon is that factory farming isn't good for anyone. Large-scale, industrialized animal agriculture is bad for the animals, bad for us and bad for the environment. It wreaks havoc upon worker wellness and human health and is inefficient from a world hunger perspective.
With our food system the way it currently is, there are many reasons to be angry about industrialized animal agriculture. Check out the slideshow below to get informed about the issues surrounding factory farming and learn how to get involved.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anjali-sareen/factory-farming_b_2904891.html
One thing we should all be able to agree upon is that factory farming isn't good for anyone. Large-scale, industrialized animal agriculture is bad for the animals, bad for us and bad for the environment. It wreaks havoc upon worker wellness and human health and is inefficient from a world hunger perspective.
With our food system the way it currently is, there are many reasons to be angry about industrialized animal agriculture. Check out the slideshow below to get informed about the issues surrounding factory farming and learn how to get involved.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anjali-sareen/factory-farming_b_2904891.html
New York Times essay : tell us why it is ethical to eat meat
What am I to make of this request? Is it a trap set by some vegetarian Witchfinder to catch an unwary omnivore in a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose equivalent of the ducking stool? Or is it an attempt to enter into serious debate? If the latter, the invitation is still booby-trapped through its lack of contextual reference. Thus the response from a hungry Pirahã or a Kalahari bushman will not be that of an overfed Westerner spoilt for choice by supermarket abundance.
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In this materialistic world in which love itself has been commoditised, the politics of food is about fear, peddled by those who have lost touch with the spirituality of eating. Love opens the door to an understanding of how we move from rapacious exploitation to nursing our soils – and our souls – back to health. Domesticated farm animals will play a major part in this future, as a return to true pasture farming is an essential component of land regeneration, underpinning a localised system of permanent polyculture. Industrialised grain and cereal production is insane, and all the arguments for ‘more of the same’ collapse into farce in the face of the evidence provided by those engaged in the planet-friendly alternative.
Thus we come at last to the question of whether it is ethical to eat meat, and the answer is surely a qualified ‘yes’ – qualified by the understanding that there is no place in our future for feedlot cattle, pig factories, grain-fed Holstein milk monsters or battery hens. Love rejects such unmitigated cruelty but accepts the highest principles of good husbandry. All living things, including us and our farm animals, are part of the food cycle. We have domesticated plant and animal alike, and we have responsibility to both, but it is well nurtured animals on managed grassland that hold the key to a healthy future. We must value their ability to convert vegetation into essential manure to help us grow plant food, but we must also accept the clear understanding that farming is management and necessitates the control of animal numbers. The meat from those animals is too precious and nutrient-dense to be wasted, but love and respectful husbandry are an essential input. Then, and only then, is it ethical to eat meat.
Well, that's his take. Personally. I like
Is Eating Meat Ethical?
My thoughts are not completely addressed in posts on water, factory farming, vaccines, etc. One rewarding Search - and not looking at just the first returns - revolved on looking at the history of pasteurization. Dr. Mercola and Mike Adams of Natural News may not sing a refrain familiar to your ears - but I find them more sensible than concentrating on germ theory while ignoring nutrition and natural defences against infection, using in common practice slow poisons ( toxins ) which...slowly poison you. If you have taken WHMIS ( materials handling safety ) courses then you have been advised of risk.
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