[Homestead] Chicken farm pollution

Lynn Wigglesworth lynnw1366 at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 30 12:05:05 EST 2008


I grew up on a tidal river in southern NJ. We trapped and ate blue crab all 
summer (and froze crabcakes for winter). I love it, but I wouldn't touch it 
now. Or anything else that filters the water in that whole region.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob ford" <bobford79 at yahoo.com>
To: <homestead at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Chicken farm pollution


> So if you pay top dollar for real "American" blue crab, this stuff is what 
> they have been filtering.  It is tough to know what is safe to eat, 
> anymore
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> --- On Sun, 11/30/08, Clansgian at wmconnect.com <Clansgian at wmconnect.com> 
> wrote:
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>> From: Clansgian at wmconnect.com <Clansgian at wmconnect.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Chicken farm pollution
>> To: homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
>> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 9:52 AM
>> > >Commercial chickens live on a steady diet of
>> antibiotics.  Tylan is added
>> > to
>> > the water and I imagine that the food has additives,
>> too. I've read some
>> > studies that composting breaks down antibiotics, but I
>> still wouldn't want
>> > in in my soil. Given how they are raised, it can't
>> be healthy stuff.
>> >
>>
>> As if that weren't bad enough itself, the cages,
>> chutes, floors, etc, are all
>> continually washed with disinfectants, fungicides, and
>> pesticides.
>>
>> If a dumptruck full of the stuff showed up free .....
>> I'd pass.
>>
>>
>> James
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