archive for August 12th, 2006

Digest: Antibiotics and pesticides … yum.

by @ Saturday, August 12th, 2006.

Chicago Tribune: For five decades, farmers have regularly fed antibiotics to cows, poultry, and pigs to prevent them from getting sick — often to compensate for stressful, crowded and unhealthy living conditions. Well, those medicated chickens are coming home to roost.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Seattleites are urged to avoid using seven common pesticides in their gardens, […]

Cluckageddon

by @ Saturday, August 12th, 2006.

When Man of La Muncha (who provided the title of this post) and I first started visiting our local farmer’s market, we asked one of the egg and meat vendors why he didn’t have more chickens for sale. The answer, he told us, had to do with bird flu, specifically the H5N1 subtype. […]

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