CHICKEN McDEATH.

[Guest guest]

CHICKEN McDEATH

 

 

Dear Friend of animals,

 

Enclosed a very important article " CHICKEN MCDEATH "

on Chickens plight and Meat eaters plight.

 

Please use copy and paste the following article and simply

send/email to your " Local Media Contact " .

and " Local Government official. " .

 

1: Your " LOCAL MEDIA CONTACT " :

You may click the following to find your local media :

http://local./

then click your State,

Then click News/Media,

Then click Newspaper, then click City, then click newspaper.

Same way, you will click Magazine, TV, Radio, etc.

 

Try to find any Email addresses in

" Health " , " Lifestyle " , " Food " , " Editorial " categories.

All the email addresses then save in your file for later use.

 

2: Your " LOCAL GOVERNMENT HEADS , especially HEALTH

OFFICIALS " :

 

Email to your local Government officials which includes

State Governor, City Mayor, Health Department in State,

City and County three levels.

 

All of their email addresses can be easily found from :

(please save what you found for campaign use later too.)

 

http://www.piperinfo.com/state/index.cfm

 

Click your State then find the following Email Address :

 

Statewide Offices

Governor

Lt. Governor

Attorney General

 

Executive Branch :

State Department of Health in your State.

 

Counties :

click all of the local COUNTIES and find all their Health

officials email addresses. (you may find out from A to Z index,

click " H " . ).

 

Cities :

click all of the local CITIES and find out City Mayor's email

and CITY'S Health and Human Services Department etc.

(again, you may find it from A to Z index, then click " H " .

It should show Health officials.).

 

 

REMEMBER, SAVE ALL OF YOUR FINDINGS FOR

LATER CAMPAIGN USE too. Thanks.

 

Thanks for your action .

Morality.

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CHICKEN McDEATH.

 

Daily January 29, 2001

 

Jonathan Fasman on

THE ANTIBIOTIC-FED CHICKENS THAT CAN MAKE YOU SICK

 

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Last week, though, the FDA held hearings on a more worrisome and

insidious -- if less headline-friendly -- food safety issue :

 

The OVERUSE OF ANTIBIOTICS IN AMERICAN LIVESTOCK.

 

Antibiotic use in general has been growing precipitously. Consider not

merely prescriptions, but also the increase in cleaning products that

contain antibacterial agents, which are thought to breed drug-resistant

strains of bacteria. At least a third of antibiotics produced in the

United States, however, are dispensed not to people at all, but to

livestock. Some are used to treat sick animals, but farmers,

particularly poultry farmers, will often give antibiotics to an entire

chicken house when not all of the birds are sick. A National Chicken

Council spokesman has explained, " You can't go out into a chicken

house and ask the sick birds to raise a wing so they can get a shot.

The only thing a grower can do is add it to the water and treat the

whole house. "

 

Antibiotics are also given as growth promoters, which increase animals'

weight-gain-to-feed ratio, thus bringing them more quickly (and

cheaply)

to slaughter weight.

 

Not surprisingly, such widespread use of antibiotics in livestock has

promoted drug-resistant strains of once easily treatable bacteria found

in meat and poultry. The Centers for Disease Control reported that

resistant strains of bacteria that cause food poisoning have increased

for the third consecutive year. A Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)

study estimates that the campylobacter bacteria is present in nearly 80

percent of all broiler chickens sold in the United States; a common

cause of food poisoning, campylobacter sickens over 2,400,000 and

kills about 500 Americans per year. In 1998, 18 percent of

campylobacter cultures were found to be resistant to quinolones,

the drugs used to fight it.

 

Similarly, resistant strains of salmonella rose from 1% of all

salmonella bacteria in 1980 to 34 percent in 1996. Salmonella is

present in a fifth of all broiler chickens sold.

 

During last week's hearing, the FDA moved to ban the poultry industry's

use of quinolones and proposed more careful scrutiny of other

antibiotics.

 

Any signs of antibiotic-resistant bacteria will lead to a moratorium on

farm use of the particular drug, according to the proposed regulation.

These moves are laudable, but hardly conclusive:

 

The FDA has no enforcement mechanism and relies on statistics that

come from the MEAT industries themselves, whose reliability is

questionable. (An independent study by the UCS showed that antibiotics

use was forty percent higher than official agriculture industry

figures.) More importantly, the FDA's regulations will have to receive

congressional approval before becoming law, and given the recent

fondness

of the LIVESTOCK, POULTRY, and PHARMACEUTICAL

manufacturing industries for Republicans, we're unlikely to see

sweeping

regulatory changes in the next four years. All three industries gave

over SEVENTY percent of their political contributions to Republicans

in the 2000 election cycle, which added up to over TWENTY MILLION

DOLLARS.

 

The incoming PRESIDENT was the top political beneficiary of all

three industries' munificence. Poultry industry advocates and antibiotic

manufacturers argue that the increase in resistance may stem from

overprescription in hospitals ;

 

THIS IS AT BEST DODGE and AT WORST AN OUTRIGHT LIE.

 

Still, the story probably seems infinitely more credible when campaign

dollars tell it.

 

 

(Please refer the original source article :

Source: http://www.feedmag.com/templates/default.php3?a_id=1589 )

 

 

Other important references sources :

 

http://www.upc-online.org/

http://www.hfa.org/factory.html

http://www.poultry.org/

http://www.meatstinks.com/VegKit/meetmeat.html

http://www.farmsanctuary.org