Ugandan Beef for your lunch ....anyone?

unlacedgecko

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Livestock Farmer
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Fife
I wouldnt drink my milk thats for sure with the odd johnes cow lurking about im only being honest antibiotic use should be cut back nobody wants to be in a hospital bed and doctor telling you your resistant to the drugs there using

Holy fuk. Have you really just stated on a public forum you wouldn’t consume your own product?!

Credibility lost.
 

lloyd

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Location
Herefordshire
I wouldnt drink my milk thats for sure with the odd johnes cow lurking about im only being honest antibiotic use should be cut back nobody wants to be in a hospital bed and doctor telling you your resistant to the drugs there using

That's not good as I would happily eat what I produce.
I think most of us agree with your point on antibiotic
use so please don't tarnish us all with the same brush as
a few poor examples.
 

Lowland1

Member
Mixed Farmer
The good news is African Beef is unlikely to be full of hormones or antibiotics. However we do have to dip them weekly with an acaricide like amitraz or stelladone otherwise they get tick fever and die. Long term i would have thought that cannot be good. So stop worrying about imports from elsewhere and build a brand that people will choose first.
 
look i see what i see farmers leaving vets with bottles of heavy antibiotics it used to be alamycin now due to resistance there using heavy drugs zactran they cost a fortune but theres demand from farmers we paint a picture were better than these countries yes we record the stuff we use but would it not be better if we didnt use almost any like them

Antibiotic use across all sectors is reducing I understand, the pig and poultry boys in particular have cut usage a lot, and the dairy boys I understand are getting to work on it, at least that is what the wife tells me, might be specific to only her practice though.
 

unlacedgecko

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Fife
Why just because of my personal view

Your producing a product that you wouldn't personally consume. How can you square that with your morals?

You make a living producing a food stuff that in your eyes is harmful to health. That's not that different from being a drug dealer. You're damaging people's lives for personal enrichment.

I'm absolutely flabbergasted at this information.
 

lloyd

Member
Location
Herefordshire
The good news is African Beef is unlikely to be full of hormones or antibiotics. However we do have to dip them weekly with an acaricide like amitraz or stelladone otherwise they get tick fever and die. Long term i would have thought that cannot be good. So stop worrying about imports from elsewhere and build a brand that people will choose first.

Good we should all club together and send Boris a Ugandan
beef hamper on the 19th June for his birthday .
We will have to lace it with womens perfume to make sure
he opens it.
 
Your producing a product that you wouldn't personally consume. How can you square that with your morals?

You make a living producing a food stuff that in your eyes is harmful to health. That's not that different from being a drug dealer. You're damaging people's lives for personal enrichment.

I'm absolutely flabbergasted at this information.

Llmmmmm appears to be in the same kind of industry as the manufacturers of industrial poisons- strychnine perhaps given that they refuse to consume their own product.
 

Ukjay

Member
Location
Wales!
I wouldnt drink my milk thats for sure with the odd johnes cow lurking about im only being honest antibiotic use should be cut back nobody wants to be in a hospital bed and doctor telling you your resistant to the drugs there using

Holy sh!t on a Bike...

Are you seriously saying that your producing a product that you are selling into the market that is not fit for consumption?

I would be seriously ashamed of myself if I was in a business that puts people at risk. There is a lot to be said about a person producing something for human consumption that they would not personally consume what they produce for fear of contracting something.

And worst of all - it is a massive negative image for the Farming Industry imho.
 

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