Are There Antibiotics in Your Lettuce?

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katz — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:27:08 GMT

Dr. Mercola just put the pin in the party hog !!!!!!

Everything that Dr. Mercola made comments to are TRUE !!!!! As a goat meat producer grower , I try to grow goats for meat the natural way of pasture grown and without antibiotics and growth hormones but there are diseases out there that can and will destroy all my herd so I do have to give limited 2 times a year vaccines to prevent diseases and worm when necessary to sustain their lives. There are weeks that pass before butchering and a week before drinking milk but I really try to not use anything that's unnecessary . The hay and grain that I feed at times is not organic grown, due to the price of feed cost and the grain is likely to be GM grain. I do have a choice of the additives that are added to the feed and the supplements and hormones that are available that I could use to enhance the growth and weight of our goats but its true what Dr. Mercola said about the meat and milk absorbing the junk, heck... just look around at all us hefty weight fatties and how tall our kids are getting .... yep ! those additives and hormones are working , our meat sources are packing on the fat and so are we !!! Growth hormones and all the genetic problems that now days kids have could be from the growth hormones that are fed to our meat sources .

Poopy frankenfood ..... you bet as there is tons of manure from those stall fed eating machine meat stock sources and vegetable farming is the way to use it up. Antibiotics, maggots, and animal worms are all dumped right in your grocery produce vegetable growing source .... YUCK ! However what do we do with mountains of smelly poop ?? The only way you can have some control of your food is to grow it yourself and some of us are too darn tired to try growing anything due to the frankenfood that we have been eating .

re: Are There Antibiotics in Your Lettuce?

curious7 — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:12:01 GMT

One of the best plant based fertilizer, happens to be composted tobacco. But any composted plant matter is better than manure.

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RobCrouse — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 23:42:45 GMT

I wonder how much harm is done to our health by the hysteria that is created from articles such as this which deals with issues that are almost completely out of our hands to identify and control. So what am I suppose to do, quit eating vegetables and rely solely on Dr. Mercola's beef? I don't think that's a good idea, and I don't think it's a good idea to throw the baby out with the bath water. We need to eat veggies.

Eat as well as you can, and spend the majority of your time focused on how you can best expend your vitality in service to humanity; not worrying about things that are out of your control. I don't want to consume antibiotics, but I'm not going to waste my life worrying about whether or not some egghead in a laboratory somewhere is able to use his mass spectrometer to detect some atomically minute amount of contaminant in my store-bought organic produce.

Just keepin' it real.

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cowgirl7 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:32:25 GMT

Animals raised on organic farms don't get sick as often as those on conventional farmsbecause they get lots of pasture time, eat better etc. Therefore they wouldn't usually get any antibiotics compared to conventional farms that give all livestock antibiotics "just in case". This means that the manure from organic farms would also be much lower in, if not free of, antibiotics. Therefore organic food fertilized with manure (from organically raised animals)would have only very minute amounts of antibiotics, if any. Organic food is still safe!

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J J — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:56:04 GMT

Sorry PattyD that your name was not typed correctly.

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J J — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:49:03 GMT

atty

One thing you might try to keep the cats away is put rocks in the planters around the plants. They will not dig in the rocks. Another thing is if they do decide to dig in the rocks is put a layer of chicken wire down on top of the soil after you have planted the seeds or plants. The plants will grow through the holes Put a sheet of plexi or glass on top of the rim of the pot with an opening in the rim on one side for ventilation. Just don't put it all the way across but close enough to the rim so they can't get in. Check it once a day and maybe open it to let it air out. If you don't it will mold and the seeds or plants will boil. When the plants are tall enough to touch the glass remove it and put the rocks around the plants. This is the best way I know of to keep cats out of outdoor pots, but as we all know they are very persistant sometimes. Another very good way if you can swing it is to get a sprayer that is activated when the cats come around and they will be sprayed with water. This will startle them and they usually don't like to get wet. You to will get wet unless you use another door to go outside. Hope this helps. Good luck!

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nogmoplease — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:32:51 GMT

Keep Antibiotics Working

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Keep Antibiotics Working is a coalition of health, consumer, agricultural, environmental, humane and other advocacy groups with more than nine million members dedicated to eliminating a major cause of antibiotic resistance: the inappropriate use of antibiotics in food animals.

re: Are There Antibiotics in Your Lettuce?

saynotoquacks — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:30:59 GMT

I would think the antibiotics would get chemically broken down while in the soil. Fortunately I have homegrown lettuce and spinach. My dad always used grass clippings as fertilizer for his garden. Prevents the soil from dehydrating. He would never use pesticides in his grass, of course.

Again, chemicals get broken down when they're in soil. Why wouldn't this apply to antibiotics?

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chazzone — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:29:18 GMT

There is a huge flaw in the reported methodology of this study. Anti-biotics that pass through the system of an animal are metabolized and the resulting chemicals are different from adding anti-biotics to manure.

It is studies like this that misinform and create a sense of hysteria among already hysterical people.

The end result is that money is spent for nothing, since we gain no useful knowledge from the process.

I came here at the suggestion of a good friend and physician, but if I don't find some real science being done, I'm afraid I'm going to have to write this off as just another bogus pseudo-science site.

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grammylaura59 — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 08:42:26 GMT

This is very discouraging news to me. What I want to know is can cleansing actually clear out antibiotics from our bodies? I always thought of it for just heavy metals, chemicals, and such. Don't antibiotics kill bacteria (good and bad) and once it is in you, hasn't it already done its bad business? The study mentioned said they put the antibiotics in the manure, not that they used manure that came from pigs fed antibiotics. It could be (and I hope it is) that there would be a different result if they used manure with "used" antibiotics in it rather than new. Does this make any sense?

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dempoolguy — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:35:24 GMT

Antibiotics? Oh well. They just sprayed a chemical over my house to kill mosquitos carrying West Nile. I've been on a rampage a few days because of that. All it did was get my stress levels to an unhealthy level. Just gotta try your best I guess and enjoy our farmers markets, whatever is available, in season, local, and hope for the best... Trying not to stress out over perfection of my kitchen table and enjoy the summer harvest of bountiful produce from my locals. Oh well...

Just saw that video about the french fries from McDonalds. Now I'm thankful I have some education and can take of myself the best I know, always learning, always reading up on things, yeah, I'm thankful, and not stressing anymore.

Taking it a little easy these days is healing.

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labrat — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:14:50 GMT

Lettice is so easy to grow. Plant your own. I supply me and all my friends all summer long with a 3x5 raised bed.

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Russ Bianchi — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:14:01 GMT

Prepared lettuces and mixes in bags as we have mentioned here before are CHEMICALLY TREATED, with anti browning agents, gases, salts, preservatives, stabilizers, that do NOT wash off.

Additionally, gmo, fertilizers, herbicides, etc. can and are regularly used.

The solution? Consumed Farm,er's Market certified organic that SMELLS like fresh lettuce, or grow your own.

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Patty D — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:54:28 GMT

Maybe I just got the answer to a question I put on the Food Sensitivities blog...ie, having gone to an all natural diet, I now have serious GI problems. I already know I am severely allergic to many antibiotics. So, now what do I do? BTW, I have a small mobile home on a rented lot, am disabled, so growing my own is out of the question, much as I would like to.

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Bob2_203 — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:33:35 GMT

All the more reason to avoid agri-business "organic", as they're the ones most likely to purchase and use feedlot dung when going the no-pesticide, no-herbicide, no-fungicide route in quest of the hallowed USDA Organic seal.