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  • From: Bobby G <bobbyg53211@yahoo.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] antibiotics & manure
  • Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:43:31 -0700 (PDT)

Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:42:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Livingontheland] antibiotics & manure


Animal Antibiotics Transfer to Crops Through Manure
... antibiotics used on livestock can appear in food
crops grown in soil treated
with livestock manure, says an Environment News
Service story. ... The study indicates that organic
crops may be at
particular risk of antibiotic contamination because
they are frequently
fertilized with animal manure...

Ken Hargesheimer


Ken, or anyone, this an important question, i think:
does the transformation that happens to manure in
composting, break down such antibiotics into
less-harmful, or even harmless, organic compounds?

just as with the tainted hay story, keep in mind that
a lot of urbanites/suburbanites seeking to get into
organic gardening, may well be unknowingly buying
their compost from commercial sources which may be
using lord-knows-what feedstocks for their
compost--toxic hay? antibiotic-laced manures?
industrial by-products & waste products? etc.

one product/service i hope to get into in the future
is making compost, of course of a clean, reliable type
made from feedstocks known to be safe. i think this
composting is an important endeavor, as these recent
articles show...

bobby g



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