The case for organic meat.........

[redsamurai]

Drug-resistant infections lurk in meat we eat - Infectious diseases- msnbc.com


It's 2 pages long so I won't cut and paste....but it's a good read. It's not talked about in this article, but the reason they have to dope up these animals in the first place with anti's is that their immune systems are too compromised by diets being fed to them and by their living conditions. ANimals fed grass, what they fucking evolved in nature to eat.....have immune systems that can fight off these infectious diseases.

Interesting in the article is the economics argument the farmer makes. So the choice, according to farmer jim is, keep meat cheap and continue to keep pumping animals with antibiotics that are one day going to create a super virus. If a pork chop costs 1.69....make it an even $2 and feed it some fucking grass.........fuck sake.

 

[mrplunkey]

Would converting to organic meat cost more than $0.266 per day?

 

[redsamurai]

Would converting to organic meat cost more than $0.266 per day?

If we cut down on our meat consumption so that farmers could rotate grazing land, yes......it would probably be that much. Now quit bringing up other threads.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Drug-resistant infections lurk in meat we eat - Infectious diseases- msnbc.com


It's 2 pages long so I won't cut and paste....but it's a good read. It's not talked about in this article, but the reason they have to dope up these animals in the first place with anti's is that their immune systems are too compromised by diets being fed to them and by their living conditions. ANimals fed grass, what they fucking evolved in nature to eat.....have immune systems that can fight off these infectious diseases.

Interesting in the article is the economics argument the farmer makes. So the choice, according to farmer jim is, keep meat cheap and continue to keep pumping animals with antibiotics that are one day going to create a super virus. If a pork chop costs 1.69....make it an even $2 and feed it some fucking grass.........fuck sake.

Blame the American way of more more more faster faster faster.

 

[nangiggles]

blame the american way of more more more faster faster faster.

titcr

 

[Dial_tone]

If we cut down on our meat consumption so that farmers could rotate grazing land, yes......it would probably be that much. Now quit bringing up other threads.

If we cut down on meat consumption that will reduce greenhouse gases, negate Al Gore and put tree huggers out of work. THINK OF THE ECONOMY!!!!!

 

[chris302001]

Drug-resistant infections lurk in meat we eat - Infectious diseases- msnbc.com


It's 2 pages long so I won't cut and paste....but it's a good read. It's not talked about in this article, but the reason they have to dope up these animals in the first place with anti's is that their immune systems are too compromised by diets being fed to them and by their living conditions. ANimals fed grass, what they fucking evolved in nature to eat.....have immune systems that can fight off these infectious diseases.

Interesting in the article is the economics argument the farmer makes. So the choice, according to farmer jim is, keep meat cheap and continue to keep pumping animals with antibiotics that are one day going to create a super virus. If a pork chop costs 1.69....make it an even $2 and feed it some fucking grass.........fuck sake.

viruses are unaffected by antibiotics. they mutate naturally.

 

[mrplunkey]

viruses are unaffected by antibiotics. they mutate naturally.

I just hope the antibiotic-driven supervirus doesn't combine forces with the massive inflation created by Ronald Reagan and wipe us all out.

 

[PICK3]

Is teh sausage still safe

 

[redsamurai]

viruses are unaffected by antibiotics. they mutate naturally.

sorry, you're right....e-coli is a bacteria not a virus.

 

[redshirt27se]

blame agricultural subsidies


green isn't ($) green when it comes to farming. if you slaughter cows, what are you going to feed them? quality shit from old mcdonald down the road, or mass produced bullshit from the acme corporation?

 

[redsamurai]

blame agricultural subsidies


green isn't ($) green when it comes to farming. if you slaughter cows, what are you going to feed them? quality shit from old mcdonald down the road, or mass produced bullshit from the acme corporation?

you're right, specifically it's the corn subsidies. They're now even trying to get farm raised fish to eat the shit. Fish are not biologically programmed to eat corn, but I guess if you starve em long enough they will. Anyway, it's the denutrition of our food supply.

 

[EnderJE]

But let's look at the alternative. I understand that if we went to more basic means for feeding our crops, that our crop output would decrease. This would mean less food. How do we solve that problem?

 

[redsamurai]

But let's look at the alternative. I understand that if we went to more basic means for feeding our crops, that our crop output would decrease. This would mean less food. How do we solve that problem?

either we figure out a way to keep our crop yields as they are but with higher nutritional densities........or we force cut back on the amount of food in the supply chain. At some point the nutrional value of food is going to virtually disappear if we keep overusing soil. If my memory serves me correct, once you've made land barren from overuse.....it doesn't come back for like 500 years or more. I'll have to check on that figure again, but I remember it was a staggering number....possibly more than 500. There may very well come a point where eating even supposedly healthy vegetables will be near futile because it's all fluff........grown to be large and have mass yet devoid of baseline vitamins and minerals. What's the point then? I guess we'll have to buy synthetic nutrion from the pharmaceutical companies then huh?