We are being asked to write to urge a ban on antibiotics used to promote
rapid growth in livestock.  If only antibiotics are banned, the industry
will search for yet another untested magic pill of unknown hazards to
fatten their stock.  I think it would be best to ask that feed be limited
to food - food that is appropriate to the animal that is being fed.  One of
the problems with hog lot feces is that the pigs can't digest the corn they
are being fed and thus produce much more phosphorus than they would if they
could properly digest their food.

And bye-the-bye, isn't this abuse of animals?

Peggy Murdock

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