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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >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