RE: French farmers feeding human sewage to livestock

Hal Hamilton (hhamilton@centerss.org)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:12:42 -0400

Bart, just because some US farmers milk 3,000 cows or feed tens of thousands
of hogs in coastal swamps, does that mean all US farmers do those things?
Of course not!!! There's an industrial hog and poultry industry in France,
just like here. Guess who they copy? That doesn't mean that the French
farmers protesting hormone beef are the same people with industrial
operations. Please get your logic straight before you take pokes at one of
the few groups successfully challenging the macdonaldization of the world's
food. Hal

Hal Hamilton
Center for Sustainable Systems
433 Chestnut St., Berea KY 40403 USA
Phone: (606) 986-5336; Fax: (606) 986-1299
hhamilton@centerss.org

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu [mailto:owner-sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu]On
Behalf Of Bluestem Associates
Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 12:03 PM
To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
Subject: French farmers feeding human sewage to livestock

There's a lively food fight developping in Europe after an EU
veterinary report revealed that pig and poultry producers in France
have been routinely including human sewage sludge in their feed. The
same practice, much less widespread, has been occurring with cattle.

Sorta undermines their stand regarding hormones, doesn't it?

Please do not take that to mean that I endorse hormones in mean, or
even oppose the EU ban thereon. It just kinda blows their food "purity"
argument right out of the water, especially coming on the heels of
Belgian contamination scandals and the emerging knowledge of widespread
black market hormone use in French, Belgian, and Dutch livestock
operations.

Bart

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