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28-Jul-09 09:18

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Geez --- maybe I really AM too clean. It would sure be a lot easier for me if I were a slob with both of my daycare houses! Don't think my clients would be too impressed though. I guess I could let the dirt build up slowly, huh? LOL! I could just get lazier by the week .... :mrgreen:

I actually found this information while looking for something else. AND maybe you guys can help me locate the info that I couldn't seem to find. I need an excerpt and/or quote, and website link, for an article concerning the fact that vaccine residue (antiobiotic or general vaccinations) stays in cow poop and the poop can be dangerous to use in gardens, etc., if the manure isn't fully, fully aged. Any help with a good website link would be truly appreciated.

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Antibiotics Being Used to Excess in Farm Animals

Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, deputy FDA commissioner, testified before the House Rules Committee that feeding antibiotics to healthy farm animals should stop. The Union of Concerned Scientists has estimated that as much as 70% of the antibiotics used in the US are given to healthy farm animals. They are traditionally used to encourage growth or prevent illness in farm-lot environments.

According to Dr. Manoj Jain, an infectious disease physician and member of the Healthy Memphis Common Table Council, the measure to limit the use of antibiotics in healthy animals is likely to fail because of the powerful farm lobby. In Dr. Jain’s personal experience as well as in the scientific literature, “The prescribing of too many antibiotics leads to super-resistant bugs in the body, in hospitals, and possibly even in our environment.” According to Dr. Jain, antibiotics are linked to serious side effects, including skin rashes, diarrhea, alteration in thinking, and loss of hearing.

Dr. Stuart Levy, director of the Center for Adaptation Genetics and Drug Resistance, and professor of molecular biology, microbiology, and medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, agrees that antibiotics are overused and even abused in both human and veterinary medicine. He says that antibacterial agents and antibiotics share the same resistance problem, something the makers of antibacterial sprays don’t want you to know. After all, if you have a product that “kills more than 99.9% of illness causing bacteria and viruses on environmental surfaces in your home,” that means 0.1% of them are both stronger than the other bugs, and they’re the ones left behind to replicate at a shocking rate of speed. That is precisely how super-viruses are made—they have no competition from much less harmful viruses or bacteria, so they’re the ones that rule the roost. [MINE: I wonder if this holds true for things like H202 and vinegar that some folks use to sterilize cutting boards and countertops. Anyone know??]

Dr. Levy also warns the antibacterial craze has another potential consequence: Studies reveal an increased frequency of allergies and cases of asthma and eczema in persons who have been raised in an environment overly protected against microorganisms.

July 28, 2009
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**EDIT - Jeepers, I went back to the site to copy the link and now it won't open! I'll post the link later when I can get to it, but for now suffice to say that I got the article from the website of the American Association for Health Freedom.

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