Okay, I admit it, this title should have been: “We are all going to die,” but it is not. I just got a link from someone in the family pointing out the obvious (that The Breet Report has been writing about since learning of blogging)….everything is connected.
Our food source is so messed up and we have no one to blame but ourselves. The problem goes deep and wide – oh – and bet your last dollar on the silver lining – money is involved. Ha!
Anyway, here goes: “Antibiotic Resistance at Factory Farm “Scares the Hell Out of” Johns Hopkins Scientists” Buzzflash: “I don’t like it when scientists feel the need to explain that they’re scared out of their wits, or use exclamation marks.” & “Farmacology” John Hopkins Magazine
What is the biggest lie ever told? Nothing to worry about – just keep doing what you are doing.
And why do really smart people stay reclusive? Because of things like this! The “I told you so,” coming from them, really won’t make a difference – onward we go.
With our population booming and having more mouths to feed, creativity/inhuman treatment started to grip the agriculture industry. Everything had to be grown faster, thus causing a need for acceleration in our food – without thought to the long term side-effects.
The body is a living organism, with a “higher functioning brain,” yet we have started the viral and bacterial outbreaks at a rapid and alarming rate. The report is basically saying, that in our efforts to be Mother Nature, we have created our own undoing. Scary, uh?
Check out the quote Buzzflash highlighted:
Another Johns Hopkins researcher, Kellogg Schwab, says he’s more than just concerned:
“This development of drug resistance scares the hell out of me. If we continue on and we lose the ability to fight these microorganisms, a robust, healthy individual has a chance of dying, where before we would be able to prevent that death.” Schwab says that if he tried, he could not build a better incubator of resistant pathogens than a factory farm. He, Silbergeld, and others assert that the level of danger has yet to be widely acknowledged. Says Schwab, “It’s not appreciated until it’s your mother, or your son, or you trying to fight off an infection that will not go away because the last mechanism to fight it has been usurped by someone putting it into a pig or a chicken.”
If the winds from the slaughterhouses and diseased areas blow the right way and (are) combine with the pollutants in the air, this is the making of widespread illness.
Another highlight:
Silbergeld explains:
“These are feed additives. It’s like using antibiotics as hair dye.” She adds, “We have this practice of permitting the addition of almost any antibiotic that you can think of to animal feed, for no therapeutic purpose, under conditions that absolutely favor the rise of resistance. We have no controls or management of the wastes. Our food safety system is a shambles. This is a situation that is widely recognized by the World Health Organization, the American Medical Association, and by others, and nothing happens! It’s astounding to me!”
The W.H.O. and others – KNOW – about this, but do nothing. Oh, wait, that might be why the report about organic and mainstream agriculture was released stating there are no difference between the two – NOW.
The articles further explain why so many people are now experiencing issues when trying go to the bathroom – now. Our bodies are having the enzymes and natural defenses, knocked out.
Heck, this also explains why (since the W.H.O. and others know about this) the health care system is the way it is: deny the claim, deny the claim, deny the claim – till YOU – are no longer alive. Forget about suing too. Always a way around that – you have to do more than prove it. We don’t live in Hollywood movies like, John Grisham’s “The Rainmaker.” (Paramount Movies, 1997)
Now, finally – check this out:
The article does get the views of the animal farming industry, which predictably shows little concern for the potential trouble caused by antibiotic use in animals, insisting that not using antibiotics would be more harmful in terms of disease than using it. They also insist, contrary to the scientific findings outlined in the article, that the medical industry bears the most responsibility for the overuse of antibiotics.
Because the federal government does not require reporting from either the drug industry or from the industrial agriculture complex on antibiotic use, the industries’ argument of there not being enough data is a somewhat valid one.
As with many other so-called innovations in the agricultural industry, the health effects of antibiotic use on CAFOs are poorly understood, which makes me even more thankful for the work of scared scientists.
Deny. Deny. Deny. Hasn’t this been the motto for awhile? Or rather – stick the blame somewhere, else for that matter?
Now, I hit the buzzer that says, “agh, wrong answer.”
In the vegan world, which I am not full blown but I stay away from meat altogether, they have been reporting and spreading the word for a LONG time. Treatment of animals for slaughter is the worst.
Infections spread quickly through them first – then to us. This IS a natural cycle that we have no control over – even with antibiotics. Once upon a time, by staying away from meats, was an acceptable alternative to not having – an overdose of antibiotics.
Question: What happens when virus or bacterial mutate enough?
Answer: It goes airborne at some point.
Again, which way does the wind blow from the closest slaughter house to you? North Carolina is having issues with its grade school kids and the pig slaughterhouse. Ummm…. Now I cannot even find that article, but it was earlier this year.
Bottom line, we have to stop our habits and develop new ones. The issues that are coming to light or rather being noticeable now, have been there for a the last couple of decades.
The environment relies on a balance of everything working – to sustain life. We are as organic, as the vegetables we grow, or other food. We are not as different from all other bio-diversity that is found on the planet. We rely on them to live.
Bio-engineering is not the answer either. I have been doing my homework on this lately, and all signs again point to more danger on the horizon that is being ignored. What looks good on paper, or on the grocery shelf, or limitedly talked about (but highlights given) – doesn’t mean (as history has taught us) that it is a good thing.
We are creating a bottleneck, right now, of our species.
Many creatures have come and gone on the planet, each having left something behind for the next. Long term here – What is our legacy? What did we do? How did we live?
Remember: All nature has is time. No rushing. No waiting. Just being and evolving, till the next creature comes along.
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19th Nov 09
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