EU outlaws animal use of herbal remedies on organic farms

[llamedos]

New EU regulations forbid the use of herbal remedies and plant essences to maintain animal health instead of antibiotics, reports Sandra Saadi. An organic ewe breeder in France has already been threatened with the loss of EU farm support payments.
"This new attack on the freedom of livestock farmers is unacceptable. It deprives them of ancestral knowledge and drives them at high speed into an ever more industrial model.
The threat was made following an inspection last year and reflects new EU and national Regulations that France appears determined to enforce rigidly."

http://www.theecologist.org/News/ne...use_of_herbal_remedies_on_organic_farms.html?

 

[Muck Spreader]

It will be interesting to see how the massed ranks of busybodies in the UK react to this one. Our neighbours are sheep farmers who are also big into herbal remedies. I will check it out with them.

 

[roscoe erf]

it will be us next they (government) just can't help themselves

 

[llamedos]

"A further Regulation is a French circular issued by the National Agency for Food Safety (ANSES-ANMV). It prevents breeders from using herbal remedies to care for animals under penalty of a ban of production, distribution and publicity, plus financial sanctions or prosecution - even using herbs that grow naturally in pastures and meadows."

this is the bit which I find quite ambiguous, when does a crop such as chicory cross over into this class. Could you possibly be penalised for growing it?

 

[Muck Spreader]

"A further Regulation is a French circular issued by the National Agency for Food Safety (ANSES-ANMV). It prevents breeders from using herbal remedies to care for animals under penalty of a ban of production, distribution and publicity, plus financial sanctions or prosecution - even using herbs that grow naturally in pastures and meadows."

this is the bit which I find quite ambiguous, when does a crop such as chicory cross over into this class. Could you possibly be penalised for growing it?

Quite, we have just direct drilled chicory into some of our grazing fields.

 

[multi power]

@llamedos i would have felt better if you hadnt turned on your computer today

 

[llamedos]

You would only have turned on the TV at sometime, and the news there would be worse therefore I am the better of 2 evils

 

[Muck Spreader]

Appears the thing she was fined for was the lack of an ordonnance (prescription) for these remedies as she either had made them herself or purchased them from a shop and sold her produce directly to the public. If she had purchased these remedies via a vet it wouldn't have been a problem. But neither would it have been a problem to buy them from a shop and then use them on herself.

 

[neilo]

Appears the thing she was fined for was the lack of an ordonnance (prescription) for these remedies as she either had made them herself or purchased them from a shop and sold her produce directly to the public. If she had purchased these remedies via a vet it wouldn't have been a problem. But neither would it have been a problem to buy them from a shop and then use them on herself.

And if she hadn't written it down, there wouldn't have been any case to argue......

 

[andybk]

does this mean origano oil used to control cocci and bacterial infections is now banned , ffs

 

[petec]

Anybody got a non-herbal remedy to cure starvation?

 

[Sid]

Anybody got a non-herbal remedy to cure starvation?

Only when they've cut down the last tree and caught the final fish will they realise you can't eat money!!

 

[Thick Farmer]

It's a good idea - antibiotics are far more effective.

 

[Robigus]

Anybody got a non-herbal remedy to cure starvation?

Fish, Caribou, Seals and blubber. You need to eat virtually the whole animal to get all the micro nutrients though. It has kept the Inuit going for thousands of years.