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Are Urban Chickens a Gateway Drug For Urban Cows and Pigs?

9:47 am in canada, chicken coop, food, heritage buildings, urban farms by TreeHugger

chicken-closeup.jpg Graham and David's Chickens in Dorset, Ontario. Image credit Lloyd Alter Campbellford is a lovely little town of 3500 people in bucolic Northumberland County, Ontario; I know quite a few people who have fled the city and are teleworking from there. But certain urban ideas are not welcome there, such as raising your own chickens. TreeHugger Best of Green Winner City Farmer quotes the mayor:
I think it's just wrong to have animals in the urban centres. What's next? Where do we draw the line? Cattle, swin...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is It True That Farmers Feed Antibiotics To Livestock To Make Them Grow Faster?

6:21 pm in animals rights, Cattle, chicken coop, food, News, pigs by TreeHugger

up close and cattle photo "Up Close and Cattle" Image credit:Flickr, Alex E. Proimos I always thought the 'it makes them grow faster' reasoning for why they put antibiotics in animal feed was a myth and that the truth was more complex. Farmers found they could crowd animals while keeping disease levels down - giving consistently higher meat and dairy production - if they constantly laced the feed with a witches brew of antibiotics. Yes, if farm animals have to fight off frequent infections they are going to put more energy into getting better and less into growth or lactation; but t...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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