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Zenlitened (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 04:20 PM Original message |
Obama Admin. Supports End to Antibiotic Use to Spur Animal Growth |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
1. Good news... |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
2. Great News |
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Tim01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. I hope everything is what it appears to be. |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 05:45 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. It is good for Corporations, until foreign markets refuse to buy it. |
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Tim01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 06:09 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Ah, I didn't know about any of this. |
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Iowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 09:34 PM Response to Reply #13 |
40. Some Americans are refusing to buy it too... |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:00 AM Response to Reply #40 |
70. Good to know. Thanks. |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 10:13 PM Response to Reply #13 |
45. Substitute criminal for broken and I'm with you all the way, Grinchie. |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:43 AM Response to Reply #45 |
50. Anybody with a soul calls it Criminal |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 09:57 AM Response to Reply #50 |
53. I dream of surviving as you are doing. Between Monsanto and the World Bank |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 06:28 PM Response to Reply #53 |
68. They honor me back! |
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chasitynola (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 11:51 AM Response to Reply #50 |
54. Inspirational... |
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Believing Is Art (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
4. Hoorah! |
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Lone_Star_Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
5. This would be wonderful |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
6. How long has this practice been going on? |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 05:48 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. Since Clinton sold out to Big Ag and allowed CAFO's to flourish. |
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Tim01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 06:11 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Fucking corporations can suck the goodness out of anything and make it poison. nt |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:49 PM Response to Reply #15 |
29. And what adverse effects have been noted? (other than larger animals) |
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AlbertCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 08:02 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Super strains of bacteria, immune to antibiotics. |
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Iowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 09:45 PM Response to Reply #29 |
43. Factory livestock operations produce meat that tastes like shit, among other things... |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:06 AM Response to Reply #43 |
71. Good to know. Thanks. And, as we support them (if we are lucky enough to be able to), the prices |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 01:24 AM Response to Reply #29 |
49. Quite a bit |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:09 AM Response to Reply #49 |
72. Yes, the corporate media is great at burying stories, except for daily war news. oh wait. |
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nuxvomica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 04:31 PM Response to Original message |
7. This is a good first step but there's that therapeutic loophole |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 10:16 PM Response to Reply #7 |
46. Excellent point! We know they are always looking for any loophole to make a profit. |
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indimuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
8. KNR! |
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bobburgster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
9. Wow! That's a breathe of fresh air. |
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quidam56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 05:15 PM Response to Original message |
10. politician$$$ and profit machine$$$ |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
11. Never mind that foreign countries already ban these medicated animals |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
12. YAY. I have deplored this practice since I studied microbiology before |
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bertman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
14. Snowball's chance. But maybe we'll have a blizzard in August. |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
16. WHERE'S MY PONY! BROKEN PROMISES! IS THIS "CHANGE?" |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 06:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. You going out of your way to be foolish? |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 06:39 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Nope, was checking if the sarcasm tag was still required. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 07:11 AM Response to Reply #22 |
73. No, that's not the problem. |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:24 PM Response to Reply #16 |
23. welcome to ignore you attention needing moron |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:05 PM Response to Reply #23 |
56. Heh. |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 04:05 PM Response to Reply #56 |
66. ahhhh yes... baiting does that. |
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SOS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:58 AM Response to Reply #16 |
52. Is this change? Probably not. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:06 PM Response to Reply #52 |
57. Has any other president supported it? |
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SOS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:13 PM Response to Reply #57 |
59. I agree |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:33 PM Response to Reply #52 |
60. Ah, but if it is it'll more than make up for staying in Iraq, ratcheting up the |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
19. Now that is good news and I have to say I am glad Obama is taking this step. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 06:33 PM Response to Original message |
20. thank god! okay +1 for Obama on this one nt |
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Sienna86 (505 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:27 PM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Great news |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
25. Go Obama . . . CHEERING !!!! |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
26. Using antibiotics for *anything* other than treating disease/infection is evil. (nt) |
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AlbertCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 08:08 PM Response to Reply #26 |
31. Really! They could sent the now unused antibiotics.... |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 08:19 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Pretty much anything's better than using them to train the bacteria, anyway (nt) |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
27. hurrah! nt |
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sce56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
28. K&R One step forward how many back are to come afterwards! |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 08:17 PM Response to Original message |
32. This is great news of the kind I like to hear |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 08:18 PM Response to Original message |
33. This is remarkable and gutsy. |
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katandmoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
35. Good news, hope they don't back down |
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frylock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
36. knr |
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AnOhioan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
37. I applaud this move wholeheartedly...one of my pet issues |
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EndElectoral (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
38. I wish Dr. Sharstein had said "must and will" rather than "should". |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 09:12 PM Response to Original message |
39. very good news... |
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varelse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 09:42 PM Response to Original message |
41. K&R |
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get the red out (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 09:43 PM Response to Original message |
42. I never thought I would see this |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
44. Maybe now farmers will be 'allowed' to test for "Mad Cow" independently. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
47. GOOD! |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-13-09 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
48. They should also stop practice of feeding meat to herbivores. Another genius move needed now. n/t |
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Chemisse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 08:14 AM Response to Original message |
51. How many DECADES have we waited for this? |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:06 PM Response to Reply #51 |
58. It's Congress who has the ball on this one. |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
55. But I thought Obama's Department of Agriculture were all a bunch of evil Monsanto shills |
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Rosie1223 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
61. This will hurt small farmers, not factory farms |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
62. Good luck on that. I hope they succeed but they'll a bunch of spine to get this through and |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
63. Make it happen, make it happen! And while we're at it, can we start washing our meat in clean water? |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
64. Good idea. |
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change_notfinetuning (750 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
65. theoretical change I can believe in . . . when pursued to practice/law n/t |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-14-09 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
67. kick |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-15-09 06:58 AM Response to Original message |
69. Great. Heaven only knows what things like antibiotics and hormones are doing to those of us |
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