I started composing a rant last evening and it started to drift into the CAFO issue. And feeding antibiotics to animals for a variety of reasons (the last of which is to actually treat an infection). And the superbugs we're producing with all our attempts at cleanliness with hand sanitizer and antibacterial hand soaps (ABHS). Dean May (I'm pretty certain it was he) mentioned here not too long ago about ABHS, which got me to thinking, and I no longer use ABHS's... <div>
<br></div><div>Farm air isn't really "clean". I once had an army doctor tell me that I was from the midwest. He did not determine that by listening to my accent, but rather by looking at my chest x-ray. He noted some anomalies on my lungs that are caused by microbes found in midwest soil (I drove tractor for my uncle while in JHS and HS.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>I support my local sustainable farming practitioners whenever possible.</div><div><br></div><div>End of abbreviated, un-ranted rant.</div><div>Paul Bruesch</div><div>Stillwater, MN<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Euphonious Thumpe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com" target="_blank">lclgcnp@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif"><div><span> I'll admit that my immune system is not what it should be, because at 10 I fell from a tree and landed abdomen-first on a cinderblock. (And it hurt.) My liver was mashed like a turnip, and in the ensuing 5 major operations (and blood transfusions) I had 4/5 of it removed, along with my spleen. (The spleen is especially important to one's immune sytstem.) I had several "near death" experiences, was written about in the AMA Journal, and called "the worst case of internal injury to survive in medical history". </span></div>
<div><span> 'nuff said.</span></div><div><span> All that that being the case, I'm still amazed (as are many physicians) that so little attention is currently being paid by most people to hygiene, when constant
reports are coming in of "superbugs" ( antibiotic-rersitant strains of formely curable diseases --- most coming out of the "confinement livestock industry" ) and new diseases, altogether. So be it. </span></div>
<div></div><div> </div><div>Euphonious Thumpe</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>