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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

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:
>
> > 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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