- Hello Jeff - Another reason to NOT eat meat. Why was
this dairy cow given such high levels of antibiotics? It seems to me that
the cow might have been carrying a disease, the farm knew it and that is
why it was so massively-medicated. Instead of being used for milk, this
probably dying animal was sent to slaughter.
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- I wonder how many millions of times situations like this
occur...with the meat ending up in a greasy double cheeseburger or in hamburger
helper in some family home, or a juicy steak in a restaurant...
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- Patty
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- Drug Misuse On Minnesota Dairy Cows Prompts Federal Warning
- Star Tribune
- Lora Pabst
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- Two Minnesota cows that could have ended up on a dinner
plate were pulled from slaughter lines after federal inspectors discovered
dangerously high levels of antibiotics in both animals. In a rare move,
federal officials sent stern warning letters to two central Minnesota dairy
farms, which were among only 30 farms nationwide reprimanded so far this
year for violating the rules governing how animal drugs can be used.
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- J&L Dairy, in Clarissa, Minn., sent a dairy cow to
slaughter in March, even though it was drugged with 129 times the amount
of penicillin allowed under federal regulations.
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- Another farm, Evergreen Acres Dairy, LLC, in Paynesville,
Minn., was warned by the FDA last month, after one of its cows was
found to have more than four times the allowed amount for a certain type
of antibiotic. Further inspection found that the farm had misused 10 other
drugs.
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- In letters to both farms, the FDA wrote that "you
hold animals under conditions that are so inadequate that medicated animals
bearing potentially harmful drug residues are likely to enter the food
supply."
- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural
Economics Univ of West Indies Please visit my "Emerging Diseases"
message board at: http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php Also
my new website: http://drpdoyle.tripod.com/ Zhan le Devlesa tai
sastimasa Go with God and in Good Health
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