verdensalt | Archive | ~ Man uses drones to expose one of America's "biggest secrets": Factory Farming. Denmark spreading MRSA around the world - and the world doesn't care ~ | Blogger: 🐽Think again, before you put pig on your plate!!. Most of the millions of pigs, Denmark exports each year, carries on the multi-resistant bacteria MRSA. This means that Danish agriculture have helped to spread the disease in other countries. But there is virtually no monitoring of how the pig-MRSA spreads - Bon Appétit... |

Update: BREAKING NEWS - Sept 22, 2016 - Denmark spreading MRSA around the world - and the world does not care - Denmark is Europe's largest exporter of live pigs - and thus 'logically' the largest exporter of MRSA, since many Danish pigs are infected with the antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Most of the millions of pigs, Denmark exports each year, carries on the multi-resistant bacteria MRSA. This means that Danish agriculture have helped to spread the disease in other countries. But there is virtually no monitoring of how the pig-MRSA spreads

Update: May 4, 2014 - Danish pigs spread hospital bacteria... Nine out of ten pigs in Danish slaughterhouses are infected with bacteria that cannot be knocked down with penicillin. Erik Larsen fights the bacteria by changing boots, washing his hands and using high-pressure flushing 

UPDATE! -Apr 26, 2016 - 70 farmers will breed pig without antibiotics to the US market....

Blogger: WHEN it comes to pigs, Denmark reigns supreme. This little country of just 5.4m humans raises 39m of them a year, when you count the stillborn piglets, making it the world's biggest exporter of pork. But many pigs die in the Danish stables - actually die more than every fifth piglet and every fourth sow (25,000 destroyed pigs per day). This means that annually raised about 29 million pigs/out of a total of 140 million farm animals in Denmark. About 10 million of these pigs are sent live abroad, mainly to Germany and Poland.  While pigs mean profits for some, they cause headaches for others. For many, many years, the danish powerful farm lobby is under siege from an unusual coalition of environmentalists, animal-welfare people and the tourism industry....We also know that each Danish cow gets more in agricultural support per. day than many poor people have to live for. And now, we know also that Danish pig breeders obviously take pride in being animal abusers....


Did you know that:

• Smell/fumes/toxic waste from pork slurry tanks, makes thesurrounding neighbour houses unsellable, asthmatic symptoms among children, upper respiratory sumptions, affecting peoples blood pressure etc. 
• HUGE amount genetically modified (GM) crops, including crops treated with glyphosate are served to cows and pigs in Denmark (above picture)
  
• Farmers routine tail docking MUST be discontinued 
• Baby pigs are taken from their mother into barren metal cells/pens and metal floor...
• Most pigs have no permanent access to large amounts of rooting or access to nature throughout their cycle
• Ear Infections, stress, puncture wounds, muscle degeneration, bids, ulcer, broken legs etc. are very common problems
• HUGE consumption of antibiotics and other pharmaceutical products / growth promoters are used
  
• Most of the pigs that die after birth, are probably exposed to significant suffering in the form of either pain, hunger, fear or stress lasting from a few minutes up to half a day..  
• From January 1, 2012 EU-legislation outlaws fixation on gestating sows. This has raised the question whether or not a further Danish legislation should ban fixation of lactating sows. “Disastrous for Danish pig farmers” says Danish Agriculture and Food.
• A ban on AGPs in Denmark has not had the intended benefit of reducing antibiotic resistance patterns in humans; it has had the unintended consequence of increasing animal suffering, pain and death.....

Each year, the Danish government publishes a report on antibiotic use and resistance patterns, as illustrated in the chart above. Ultimately, comparison of resistance patterns from the Danish data in humans and animals provide no clear correlations. (Antibiotic Use in Denmark, 1990-2009)

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Phillip Schneider, Staff
Waking Times

Factory farming is quite possibly the most horrific and destructive practice we humans engage in today. It sacrifices billions of lives each year and serves to pollute, not protect, the environment of our planet. According to the animal rights group, Last Chance for Animals, “97% of the 10 billion animals tortured and killed each year are [factory] farm animals.” So why is it that when most people look at their plates they don’t see the real story behind what they’re eating?

Pollution and Environmental Damage

Let’s take a look at a video published by Factory Farm Drones about a man who infiltrated factory farm territory with a surveillance drone. In the video, you see a glimpse of how devastating factory farming can be on the environment as well as on neighboring communities who happen to be down-wind of one of these facilities.

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