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Pressure rises to stop antibiotics in agriculture - Yahoo! News
"Back in Missouri, farmer Kremer finally found an antibiotic that worked on his leg. After being released from the hospital, Kremer tested his pigs. The results showed they were resistant to all the same drugs he was.
Kremer tossed his hypodermic needles, sacked his buckets of antibiotic-laced feed, slaughtered his herd and started anew.
"I was wearing a syringe, like a holster, like a gun, because my pigs were all sick," he recalled. "I was really getting so sick and aggravated at what I was doing. I said, 'This isn't working.'"
Today, when Kremer steps out of his dusty and dented pickup truck and walks toward the open-air barn in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, the animals come running. They snort and root at his knee-high gum boots. There are no gates corralling the 180 pigs in this barn. He points to a mound of composting manure.
"There's no antibiotics in there," he says proudly.
Kremer sells about 1,200 pigs annually. And a year after "kicking the habit," he says he saved about $16,000 in vet bills, vaccinations and antibiotics.
"I don't know why it took me that long to wake up to the fact that what we were doing, it was not the right thing to do and that there were alternatives," says Kremer, stooping to scratch a pig behind the ear. "We were just basically killing ourselves and society by doing this." "
in-n-out’s secret menu » Badmouth
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There is lots of information out there on the Internet about the secret menu, but no one seems to have gotten it all, and a lot of what is out there is just plain wrong. Nothing is more embarrassing than ordering a secret item that doesn’t exist.
So, through dilligent research, we have managed to produce what we believe is the definitive guide to the In-N-Out secret menu.
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We service most of Los Angeles and Orange County, and parts of Riverside County, including South Bay, West LA, Palm Springs, San Fernando Valley, Pasadena, Irvine and Long Beach.
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WHFoods: The World's Healthiest Foods
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Lists nutrients, health benefits, storage, safety, history and descrition, among other things. Seems extremely useful.
"Among the thousands of different foods our world provides, the majority contain at least several of the nutrients our bodies need but to be included as one of the World's Healthiest Foods they had to meet the criteria listed below. The criteria we used will also help you understand why some of your favorite (and also nutritious) foods may not be included on our list. For example, Readers have asked why mango, a very nutritious food, is not among the World's Healthiest Foods. While mangoes taste great and are rich in vitamins and minerals, they do not fit our criteria of familiarity and availability."
- helaine on 2007-02-18
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130 foods that can serve as the basis of your Healthiest Way of Eating. Links to the articles about these foods can be found below.
10 day survival pack for your vehicle for just $25 by Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM Issue #104
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This article talks about earthquake supplies for your car that you can buy in a supermarket. There are some good ideas here that provide some variety with the stuff I already have. It also says a change of clothes, which I don't have, and toilet tissue - which is a great idea!
- helaine on 2007-03-19
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When it comes to stored emergency food, you want meals that are easy to prepare, use little or no cooking equipment, and tastes good. Since you could be injured or trapped, you want to keep it very simple. You may have limited trunk space and may have to carry this emergency food supply some distance if you must leave your vehicle, so you want to keep its size and weight to a minimum. This means you need to buy foods that are highly concentrated and only require hot water to prepare.
There are many drink mixes and dehydrated food packs that are inexpensive and can be found in any large grocery store, although they are not actually advertised or sold as emergency or camping supplies. Be sure to check all expiration dates and purchase only the newest stock. Most of these recommended products can provide good nutrition and taste variety over many days. The packaged meals I am recommending are sold in individual moisture-proof foil pouches and require only a cup of very hot water to reconstitute into a tasty hot meal that will serve two people.
Some Tips for Making Great Pasta
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Americans have no idea how to eat pasta. We make a simple and hearty dish into something complex and frivolous, the culinary equivalent of 2-for-1 shooters at the chain restaurant down the block. Judging strictly by our consumption, we regard cheese as a foodstuff that can raise the dead, a tendency that betrays a more subtle overemphasis on sauce to make our pasta palatable. More disturbingly, more often than not, our sauce usually comes out of a jar from some distant corporate canning facility. Very few of us actually taste pasta anymore, and this has led to a palatte for processed food that leaves us dependent on restaurants for our pasta fix. No more. Beyond being possible, it's absurdly easy to serve up fresh and delectable pasta in your own home. The key is simplicity, great ingredients, and little bit of know-how.
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