--- 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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