New strain of a super bug found in milk...
Supermarkets have a lot to answer for, in the plight of milk farmers...
Due to the pressure that BIG SUPERMARKETS put on farmers to produce milk at ridiculously low prices, farmers are ever increasingly driven to cut their costs via intensive farming, which often means cows are kept in tightly packed cramped conditions, which in turn creates more infection among the bovine, therefore necessitating the use of antibiotics for these poor animals.
Milk farmers are to be applauded...
Yes that's right, The Blandford Buzz may not agree with all the practices that farmers employ but the fact remains, that due to pressures imposed on farmers by the BIG SUPERMARKETS, to water down the price of milk, it's any milky (bloody) wonder that ANY MILK FARMER ACTUALLY MANAGES TO STAY IN BUSINESS AT ALL !
This above video was made in 2011, so the figures may slightly vary now but unfortunately the fundamentals remain the same...
This above video was made in 2011, so the figures may slightly vary now but unfortunately the fundamentals remain the same...
From dinosaurs to cows to MRSA - Nature will always find a way...
I am reminded here of the life finds a way scene in Jurassic Park - Now that antibiotics are over prescribed in human and animal populations, sneaky sinister new strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria are beginning to take a strong hold in human and animal health.
Movie clip courtesy of Stephen Spielburg
What the "experts" said about mad cow disease in the early 1990's...
It was widely held by experts that mad cow disease, that is Bovine spongiform encephalopathy or BSE, which cows were infected with - due to being fed a cheap, cost cutting offal protein supplement - could not cross species and infect human beings...
Mad cows disease and the spread of Creutzfeldt jakob disease
In reality nature indeed found a way and unfortunately human beings became fatally infected with the human version of mad cows disease, known in short as CJD...
To believe or not to believe the "experts" that the new MRSA strain in milk poses no risk to human health, that is the question???
According to (unnamed) experts this new strain of MRSA in cows milk poses no risk to human health, as long as the milk is pasteurised ... Are the UK population bleating sheeple??? with an inability to weigh up facts, probabilities, possibilities and logical reasoning? No, the vast majority of the UK populace is hopefully smart enough to deduce that if ever powerful strains of bacteria are able to overwhelm antibiotics, then in time they're sure as hell going to be able to out manunevre the pasteursation of milk...
Where the remainder of my cows milk is going until girt big greedy supermarkets STOP THE PRESSURISATION OF MILK FARMERS...
Sources MRSA in milk Mad Cow Disease