ANIMAL RESEARCH T A K E S LIVES
- Humans and Animals BOTH Suffer
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The Farm and Stockbroker Vet says that antibiotics are:
"only a substitute for good husbandry... germs concerned build up a powerful resistance against a particular antibiotic"
and
"In USA and Ireland farmers and veterinary surgeons have ceased using antibiotics because the bugs defy the lot... we are teetering on the brink of an abyss, surely and gradually the poultry bugs are becoming conditioned to the drugs and disaster cannot be far off."
By continual ingestion of infinitesimal amounts in their food human beings are also developing allergies to drugs and chemicals. Australia's Dr Franklin Bicknell, in Chemicals in Food and in Farm Products: Their Harmful Effects, wrote:
"A new strain of resistant staphylococci has spread in the general community, causing septicaemia with over a 40 percent mortality. It seems most probable that the infection has spread from antibiotic-treated animals to farm workers, to everyone. Fungal infections in man may occur in the brain, lungs, gut, kidneys, skin and are increasingly common since the antibiotics kill the bacteria which normally inhibit the growth of the fungi... Other anti-infective agents routinely fed to poultry often causes dermatitis in man to whom they are also toxic."
All the evidence shows that breast cancer can be caused by the development and growth of oestrogens (growth stimulants), and that beef, mutton and especially poultry are increasingly contaminated with artificial oestrogens which have been injected into the animals in order to fatten them or increase their rate of growth.
In Silent Spring Rachel Carson says that a quarter-century ago, cancer in children was considered a medical rarity. Today she says more children die of cancer than from any other disease. M. Berglas, of L'Institute Pasteur, Paris, says that in his opinion everyone will, before long, be threatened with death through cancer. Whilst subsidies are paid to farmers to help them produce food of doubtful quality, which even contain toxic substances, the medical profession's chief preoccupation is with disease after it has arisen. Whilst evermore harmful vivisection-based drugs aimed at bringing relief, are in reality the potential for new hitherto unknown diseases, little is spent on purifying the soil, the seed, the plant and the animal. Meanwhile a race is developing between disease and the scientists creating new drugs to keep mortality in farming down to levels where profit can still be made.
Recently in Britain, Professor Richard Lacy of Leeds University (Agscene, No. 99, the journal of COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING) suggested avoiding all beef products: "If you want to be absolutely safe you should not eat beef or foods containing beef products." He was referring to the deadly brain disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy, (or mad cow disease), which is currently affecting British cattle and threatening to spread to humans. The disease is said to be caused by feeding the cattle the remains of other disease-ridden animals. Meanwhile a catalogue of ghastly vivisection is being undertaken in laboratories across Britain on cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, chickens, marmosets, mink, hamsters and mice. Vivisection designed to ensure that man can safely continue eating other animals. This is relevant to New Zealand as thousands of heifers are being exported from New Zealand to vivisection laboratories in Britain where they will be implanted with calf embryos from cows with mad cow disease and kept seven years to see if the disease is passed to the offspring.
As Britain incinerates, bulldozes and burns thousands of carcases of headless cows and their infected calves, and refrigerate their heads for experiments, many warnings are being made that... pigs might be next in line for tragedy of major proportions.