animals
The miracle hen that survived being crushed under a paving slab
Pictured above is our ex-battery hen, Galadriel, who at the weekend survived a paving slab falling on her, without a single broken bone in her body. I was rearranging the paving around the hen-house, and the slab was so heavy I had to drag it around. It was much too heavy for a grown man to easily lift, and was left for a short time leaning against a tree when it fell over. Onto our hen.
tags: accidents, Galadriel, hens, life, miracles, pets, poultry, survival, unexplained, vetsMRSA in the food chain - another gift from the intensive farming industry?
Not long after it was revealed that Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) want to start feeding pig remains to our poultry, comes the news that a variant of MRSA may have entered the human food chain. It’s both ironic and tragic that the ST398 strain is found in factory-farmed pigs in the Netherlands. None of the three humans in three separate UK hospitals had a close association with farm animals.
Most cases of the ST398 strain have been spread to people in close contact with animals such as farmers, vets and abattoir workers. Those who handle and prepare food can be infected if the bacteria gets onto their hands and enters a cut or wound, even microscopic tears in the skin.
tags: antibiotics, chickens, cows, DEFRA, food, FSA, intensive farming, meat, MRSA, pigs
