Pat's Note:  The Soil Association are right. 

More and more antibiotics are used on fewer pigs in Britain.

Defra obviously can't dispute it. 

If they try to explain why, they are going to have to disclose that
they have been used to keep sick pigs alive long enough to get them
into the food chain.

If they admit that, they are going to have to admit that the disease
mutated PMWS has been present in Britain's pigs since 1999 with heavy
losses.

They are also going to have to explain who was intimidating English
witnesses to Westminster and who was covering up, in the then Scottish
Executive, for  criminal offences committed in England.

That is bad enough, but then they are going to have to explain the
link between sick pigs and MRSA in the hospitals and why they ignored
the Dutch four years ago when they warned the world that MRSA was
spreading from pigs to people.

Then it is going to emerge that pigs so sick in Scotland with PMWS
were refused permission to be slaughtered in Scotland and were shipped
south to England. "The English can eat them if they like" 

The Tartan Maffia are in deep deep trouble. The whole lot will be sent
back across the border and have to explain to the Scots exactly why
they have disgraced Scotland on the world stage.

The Scottish people ain't gonna be any more pleased than the English
and Welsh will be. 

You can see why Darling is so depressed. Wouldn't you be?

He must know that the Class Actions will be on a hitherto unforseen
scale - anywhere - ever.

Except by a rather battered ex-shipbroker with an irritating habit of
pointing out the obvious: he saw what was coming and kept going
despite all those trying to hide up the truth.

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/farming-news/Organic-group-disputes-figures-on.4442544.jp

Organic group disputes figures on antibiotic use

29 August 2008 

By Chris Benfield 
THE Soil Association is disputing new government figures that appear
to show fewer antiobiotics being used by farmers.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said sales of
"veterinary therapeutic antimicrobials" in 2007 were well down on
2006.

Defra has been collecting and reporting the figures for several years,
in response to concerns about resistance to antibiotics being
encouraged in animals and then transferred on to humans.

In the past, the Soil Association, representing the organic farming
movement and its customers, has complained about lack of detail in the
Defra reports.

This year, it has complimented Defra for responding to its criticisms
- and says it has been able to glean enough information to show that
the downward trend in overall consumption is more or less explained by
falling numbers of animals.

Consumption of two of the most effective antibiotics available was
actually up, in terms of average prescriptions per animal, said the
association – and Defra did not dispute its interpretation.

Fluoroquinoline consumption on farms was up 48 per cent since 2001 and
cephalosporin consumption by 138 per cent because the medicines are
out of patent and have become much cheaper than they were. They are
both highly important in human medicine.

Richard Young, a Soil Association researcher, said pig and poultry
farmers and their vets were quite clearly ignoring the advice which
all doctors treating people were expected to follow – to save the
strongest treatments until all else had been tried.

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Regards
Pat Gardiner
Release the results of testing British pigs for MRSA and C.Diff now!
www.go-self-sufficient.com  and http://animal-epidemics.blogspot.com/