Be careful about overdramatising antibiotics occurence in nature. Antibiotics occur naturally in any habitat suitable for fungal growth.
I think it is a mistake to put multi-resistant bacterias in hospitals into this mix. It has very little to do with use of pesticides in agriculture, or antibiotics in livestock. It has all the more to do with the sloppy practice of GPs in prescribing antibiotics for situations where they are not needed or not effective (ie viral infections), and with general incompetence in the public about using antibiotics. It is very common that patients quits the antibiotics treatment when they start to feel better, rather than finishing the cure. In addition, they save the leftovers for later occasion, taking them as they would aspirin. This practice promotes resistance in _human_ pathogens directly, and is a much larger problem than use of antibiotics in livestock. I wish this could receive even half as much attention as all this stuff about "clean" food. It would do both us and nature a huge favour. Jostein 2009/9/11 eckinator <eckina...@gmail.com>: > The principal difference to me is that organic fruit and vegetables > reduce the amount of fertilizers and persticides polluting our water > and that organic meat even more importantly reduces the amount of > antibiotics released into the environment. Antibiotics are in fact > traceable in almost all liquid water (except freshly molten glacier > water etc) and affect the food chain and nature's system as a whole by > either reducing bacterail growth or forcing the development by > mutation of singly or multiply resistant bacteria. Anyone ever heard > of the death toll of MRSA in hospitals? Well worth reading... it is > not about your health, it is about the damage you do mainly. There are > enough toxic substances in the environment to easily offset the > benefits of organic food as it is... > Cheers > Ecke > > 2009/9/11 AlunFoto <alunf...@gmail.com>: >> 2009/9/8 John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com>: >>> >>> What exactly *IS* organic? How does a product qualify to have that label? >>> >>> It's like things labeled "natural". It doesn't mean anything. >> >> What I do know is that unless you _are_ a vegetable, there's no such >> thing as inorganic food. :-) >> >> What defined as organic is defined in legislation in Europe. However I >> feel that the health effect of organic (or "ecological" as it is >> labelled in Norway) is overrated for many products. Scary stories like >> the peppers from Germany of course reinforces the good vs. bad >> dichotomy, but for most products I don't think the difference is that >> dramatic. >> >> On another note, high quality (and high price) non-organic food is >> competing directly with its organic counterparts. The cheap stuff is >> bad whether it's organic or not. >> >> Jostein >> >> >> -- >> http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ >> http://alunfoto.blogspot.com >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
