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Documentary on British television, Tuesday evening, Mary 16, 1995
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laura Dilley )
Thu May 18 08:06:45 1995
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 18 May 95 08:05:46
From: elsiedee@MIT.EDU (Laura Dilley )
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Subject: Bad farming - Documentary on British television, Tuesday evening,
Mary 16, 1995
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 22:21:59 -0400
From: vrc@tiac.net (vrc)
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>Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 13:53:09 +0200
>From: "Lise Pr\\fstegaard" <lip@fimdfh.fim.dk>
>To: veggie@maths.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: bad farming
>
> Last nigth there was a documentary on danish television
>about multiresistent bacteria that are proliferating and spreading from
>farm animals, especially "factory" pigs and chickens, to humans The
>apparent cause of this shocking evolution seems to be the year long
>excessive use of antibiotics in these farmproductions. Antibiotics of all
>sorts have been used carelesly to speed up growth and to prevent
>diseases rather than curing them , all in order to give high yields at low
>costs. Animals and now also people are suffering and dying from this,
>and future prospecst are bad according to scientists around the world.
>Yet another very good reason to be a vegetarian and to support
>sustainable organic farming!
> Comments are Welcome.
> Lise Praestegaard.
>
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