I must response,, as you can see by my addy,, I must have sheep and goats,,, and I use manure that is composted in my garden,, I am around the stuff all the time,, I clean out barns, I shovel it , I walk thru it, and when the wind blows it move around the whole rural area from other places as well as mine,, I have yet got salmonella, or e coli,,, I asked my vet once,, why is it that folks that have livestock and raised do not come down with all those disease that apparently inflict the folks in the cities,, Welll, maybe the city folks are too clean,, do not build up a immuniity to them,, remember back when you were a kid, how you played in the dirt and made mud pies? Here we have that come in the spring and fall,,,, they poop I am sure all over the place,,I also have free ranging chicken as well as some ducks,, So how is it that folks like me are not sick from these illnesses? the one thing we do do is when we come into the house we always wash our hands... now for radition,,, When I was a kid,, and mother would take me in for a new pair of shoes,,, there was a device in the middle of the many of the shoe stores,, it was a floscope(sp) I would stand up in this device, and there was a place where I could put my feet,, I could look thru a viewer as well as my mother and the shoe sales person,, he would turn it on,, and you could see the bones in my feet and you could see if the shoes really fit and not too small nor too large, I wonder now just how shield that device was,,, also in the late 1940 and 1950,, TB was around in the US more than now,,, so to get the public aware and have them check,, there were TB buses outfitted with x ray machines that would park at various shopping areas,, no malls or shopping centers at that time,, it was parked on the street,,, you walked into the front part of the bus,, sit down ,, give information like name, address and the like,, in the middle of the bus was a x ray machine,, you had a chest xray done there,, and left out the back,, this was parked at various busy intersections thru the city,, did I mention this was in chicago? now toxic chemicals,,,, During WW2,, my dad worked at a lead paint factory,,, they had no masks,, wore the same clothes they came in to work,, and went home in the same clothes,, all for the war effort,, now he did get lead poisoning and almost died, but as a child I would run to him and like so many children wrap my arms around his legs and he would pick me up when he came home,, I wonder how much lead as a child I ingested and absorbed this way,,, Also as a child,, we use to use chalk to draw a hop scotch on the sidewalks,, well , when we did not have chalk ,, a nice chunk of abestos worked very well in its place,, you see the pipes in basements had abestos wrapped around them with a canvas cover and held in place with metal bands,, in homes,, many windows sills were painted with lead paint,, I am sure that I cut my teeth on some of those window sills,, and most likely played with lead paint coated toys,,, So I wonder how in the world did I ever live to this age with all that stuff around me? Oh I must add one other thing,, it was a common sight in chicago to have a horse drawn wagon,, yes,, they had horse drawn wagons evein into the 1950;s,, that would go around in the alleys of chicago selling fruit and veggies as well as fish packed on ice,,to the house wives of the neighborhood,, you would hear him coming as he would holler out, FRUIT, VEGABLES.FISH and the house wives would come out and buy them,,,,,Later it was replaced with a truck that was open on both sides so the ladies could see what was for sale,, It was common to have meat markets that butched their own chickens in the back,,, it was the butch shop,, that only sold meat and fish , nothing else,, the floor had sawdust,,
*********************************************************************************** "The air of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. God forbid that I should go to any heaven where there are no horses. sheep. goats. chickens.dogs. and cats." ----- Original Message ----- From: "adar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <PNEWS-L@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 2:01 PM Subject: [PNEWS-L] None Parts Manure Nine Parts Manure The fact that feeds or fertilisers based on chicken droppings are suspected to serve as a medium of bird flu spread or infection makes the extent of the basic problem crystal-clear. - Pia Mautes, Meat Processing, Global edition.. Planetary Poisons and Bird Flu Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, an osteopathic medical doctor and the author of FOWL! Bird Flu: It's Not What You Think, contends that toxic residues of dioxin and thousands of other poisonous chemicals added through nuclear radiation and nuclear waste are contributing to illness in migratory birds, domestic fowl, and humans. In addition to the rapid growth of Western-style poultry factory farming in Asia and around the world, traditional farming practices in Asia include feeding poultry droppings directly to pigs and fish. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), chicken feces are "commonly used as food and fertiliser in integrated fish farms in China" (GRAIN, 6). In Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching, Michael Greger describes a traditional Asian fish-farming practice in which battery-caged chickens are placed "directly over feeding troughs in pig pens which in turn are positioned above fish ponds. The pigs eat the bird droppings and then defecate into the ponds" (138-139). This method of feeding excrement to farmed animals mirrors the way farmed animals around the world really are fed, and how much of the world's plant agriculture is fertilized. Animal-based fertilizer and wastewater runoff from animal farming operations explain why crops such as cantaloupe and spinach can infect people with intestinal bacteria like Salmonella and E. coli and why fresh vegetables may contain substantial amounts of antibiotics with potential health risks to consumers including enhanced antibiotic resistance (Kumara). For more vis-a-vis Your Animals are Dying and So Are We, go to: http://pnews.org/ArT/WaR/AnDy.shtml [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Progressive News/Views (since 1982) Yahoo! Groups Links
