Re: antibiotics in our food

**a*@aol.com**

Ken,

Fishfarmers have been adding antibiotics to their pools for a while now.  The trade-off, and it's always about trade-offs, are the mercury and toxic chemical levels that fish from the seas carry due to industral pollution. 

I'm not surprised that catfish farmers would be adding antibiotics to their  tanks - they view this as a way of increasing yields, if not flavor. 

And certainly not promoting the health of their consumers. 

Never been much of a fan of catfish ( DamnYankee that I am) but this would just be another reason for me not to go to Popeyes. 

Thanks for sharing this information, 

Adam 
from Hell's Kitchen

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New in-feed antibiotic posed to benefit catfish farms

Mar 15, 2006 9:51 AM

Hugh Warren, president of Catfish Farmers of America, has called Aquaflor a
"breakthrough for the industry.

A representative from the company that is responsible for offering the first
FDA-approved in-feed antibiotic for U.S. aquaculture in two decades spoke to
an audience about the product recently during the Fish Farming Trade Show in
Greenville, Miss.
NOW THE FISH YOUI EAT WILL CONTAIN ANTIBIOTICS.

Ken Hargesheimer

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