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Bad Girl Makes Her Escape

"A cow called Yvonne, who escaped from a Bavarian farm after apparently sensing... more

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YouTube - Spot the Super Kitty meets Amy Mooey

My kitty Spot meets Amy Mooey, my moo plush toy.

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FBI Files Reveals Alien Cows Mutilation

More than 8,000 cattle were snatched by mystery aircraft, mutilated, then dropped from... more

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Cow fart in a can offers 'authentic smell of countryside'

Tins filled with the air sucked out of an ageing wooden stable, straw lined and filled... more

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Cow Rumen Enzymes for Better Biofuels

When it comes to breaking down plant matter and converting it to energy, the cow has... more

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Birds, Fish now Cows Oh My

STOCKTON -- The Portage County Humane Society is trying to figure out what caused 200... more

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Strange, but true: Two-headed cow eats with both heads

Born in Georgia, the former Soviet republic, the calf has been rejected by his mother.... more

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Killing for Burgers: Kill It, Cook It, Eat It

Six volunteers arrive at Pipers Farm in Devon for what will surely be an emotional... more

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Have You Ever Heard Of Panda Cows? | ForUsToBe

The miniature panda cow is the result of 44 years of genetic manipulation... more

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Kid's Kouch Halloween Special

In this extra special (and spooky) Kid's Kouch taped in front of a live studio... more

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Poor Cow Gets Her Face Ripped Off By A Train And Survives (GRAPHIC VIDEO) - The Daily Blender

Warning: Viewer Discretion Is Advised. Graphic Footage. Grazing will never be the... more

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Drunk On Video: Cow Attacks Drunk Who Illegally Strolls Into Rodeo - The Daily Blender

Most likely the local drunk in Jalisco, Mexico.

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Is Constitution cow, sheep or goat?

Drafts of the Constitution were penned on hemp paper, but the original was written on... more

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Crowds Pack Cow Palace for Hemp Expo

Crowds were large Saturday and Sunday. The only surprise of the weekend is that a lot... more

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Watchdog probing 'sale' of milk from cow with cloned parent

Produce from cloned animals or their offspring are label novel foods and have to be... more

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Automatic cow wash aims to boost milk production

Its like a car wash, but for cattle. The makers say the device is revolutionary to the... more

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Silly cow, pools aren't for cattle.

They're not quite sure how the less than a year old cow escaped and ended up in... more

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Behind the Mania: Freak Animals

On infoMania, Ben Hoffman exposed just how much the news loves animals with... more

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See The Hygiene Conditions And The Torture Your Food Is Getting | ForUsToBe

Mercy For Animals released a video showing a dairy worker chopping off a young's... more

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Antibiotic overuse on livestock puts humans at risk

Healthy livestock, sick people
The meat industry says giving animals antibiotics is necessary to keep costs down, but the risk of antibiotic-resistant infections is growing.
Editorial
March 13, 2010

Year after year, legislation intended to preserve the effectiveness of available antibiotics by limiting their use in livestock is shot down. The latest bills introduced in both houses of Congress have been stalled for close to a year.

Banning the use of antibiotics in perfectly healthy animals has always been the right thing to do for the health of the American public. Overuse of antibiotics, whether in animals or humans, renders them less effective because it leads to the development of resistant bacteria. Not so long ago, humans were the ones ingesting too many of these wonder drugs, which were meant to fight infection, not acne or the sniffles. More recently, the overuse of antibiotics has been a staple of livestock operations, which feed low doses to animals to prevent disease from sweeping through overcrowded pens and as a growth enhancer. About 13% of the antibiotics given to farm animals are for growth, not medical treatment.

The industry claims the use of antibiotics keeps expenses down, but its calculations don't include the rising cost to the U.S. of antibiotic-resistant infections, in both health and actual dollars. Exotic antibiotics for resistant infections are far more expensive than the run-of-the-mill medications.

According to a report by the Associated Press, federal studies routinely discover drug-resistant bacteria in meat sold in the nation's supermarkets. The report cites the widespread agricultural use, starting in the early 1990s, of a family of antibiotics that includes Cipro. Several years later, Cipro stopped working 80% of the time on deadly human infections it previously had cured.

In its quest for ever-cheaper food, the United States has fallen behind the developed world when it comes to antibiotic use. Six years ago, the World Health Organization reported that the evidence clearly linked resistant, sometimes killer, bacteria to "nonhuman usage of antimicrobials." The European Union has banned the use of antibiotics in livestock except to treat illness.

Last summer, Joshua Sharfstein, deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, told Congress that the practice of administering antibiotics to healthy farm animals had to stop. And the U.S. Department of Agriculture has thrown cold water on the cost argument, reporting that, except in the case of very young pigs, the cost of the antibiotics to the agricultural industry outstripped the financial benefits.

But these agencies' ability to change the outmoded, expensive and harmful farm practice is limited. There's always something urgent, like healthcare, dominating the congressional agenda. It's time to realize that protecting the usefulness of antibiotics is a pressing health matter as well.Healthy livestock, sick people The meat industry says giving animals antibiotics is... more

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