[Homestead] MRSA (Superbugs) - hogs - smal farmers

Lynda lurine at com-pair.net
Thu Mar 12 13:04:17 EDT 2009


Silly, they won't worry about the pig factories.  Merck will come up with a 
vaccine and Teflon will mandate it under his health plan as preventative 
medicine.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 at hotmail.com>

> If they find this link between MRSA and hogs, of course they WON'T do the
> sensible thing and close down the pig factories. Animals that live an
> unstressed, uncrowded natural life outside, eating the foods they should 
> eat
> (with no routine antibiotics). are much less likely to get sick..every
> homesteader knows that. But they'll come up with some expensive, high-tech
> solution that lets them keep their pig factories but doesn't work.They've
> had nasty diseases going through chicken houses for years...affect both
> chickens and people. My chickes run free and have no diseases. I'll even
> make mayonaise with raw eggs; I wouldn't do that with store-bought eggs. 
> You
> have to cook them until they are rubbery so they won't kill you.
>
> I was just reading that garlic can destroy the MRSA bug. Of course doctors
> would never stoop to using something that anyone could grow in their 
> garden.
> I've been taking garlic all winter, and haven't gotten any of the colds or
> stomach flus that have gone around (I usually get at least one each 
> winter).
> I'm starting to swear by garlic.




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