GEORGIA FISANICK - Yes, indeed... our Democracy is threatened by White Supremacy in the intolerance of Rep. Elise Stefanik, the elected Representative from my district in the Adirondacks... our Town of Essex Board is an example, our County Board of Supervisors is an example... Fascists rule. The Democratic Party cannot seem to find a can…
GEORGIA FISANICK - Yes, indeed... our Democracy is threatened by White Supremacy in the intolerance of Rep. Elise Stefanik, the elected Representative from my district in the Adirondacks... our Town of Essex Board is an example, our County Board of Supervisors is an example... Fascists rule. The Democratic Party cannot seem to find a candidate that speaks English to the poorly educated whites of our pathetic population that surrounds us at Lewis Family Farm... READ PALLADIUM MAGAZINE ON ME. THE MOST RECENT ISSUE IS ON LINE - WITH A MOVIE... FOUR COLLEGE BOYS CAME AND LEARNED... OUR LOCAL NEWSPAPERS WILL NOT COVER WHAT’S HAPPENING TO LOCAL LIVESTOCK. OUR LOCAL DVMs have joined the nation’s DVMs to poison the livestock to make money... the Palladium Magazine piece is in final edit and will take another week or so - then will be printed in the next issue.. costing $50 when mailed.
I just finished reading the article. Amazing... I want everyone to take the time reading it... and I want to learn what more I might able to do to help! I ofter notice the packages in our meta departments that are labeled 'no antibiotics'. I had no idea... How things have gotten so to of control! How can one inspire people to read what is really important! This needs to be circulated widely.... My grandfather was a farmer, small time, in Dubuque. We lived in Chicago and would visit the farm for a couple of weeks every summer. My Mother was the second youngest of 8 kids, and she grew up milking cows, and cleaning the hen house (outdoor plumbing for. many years!). I can't imagine that these antibiotics were widely used then, but I could be mistaken... (she was born in 1914 and there was at least 10 years between her and her oldest sibling... Visiting the farm was so blissful! Thank you for all the work yo have done this far. And the photographs of your farm are beyond lovely. Maybe some day I will have the opportunity to visit... I would love to photograph you and your farm, and write about you and your work. The world needs to know! Thank you again!
Antibiotics were created in the pre-war period as injections. Pill form arrived c. 1950. That was the beginning of trouble. Livestock were fed antibiotics in a growing pattern for decades. This continues. If you visit the Tractors & Supply cash register, two types of chicken feed is sold there. The large bag and the small far more expensive - may be clean of antibiotics. The cheating and lying starts there.
10,000 thank yous!!!! Finally, someone with the power & wisdom to address the 'elephant in the room!' I am a fam doc who practices in 'feedlot city' aka Southern, Alberta. Since I was a resident in the 1990s physicians (over prescribing) have always been chastized as the cause for our prob w antibiotic resistance. The media never seemed to question the impact of factory farmining as the primary driver, even when feedlot runoff was repeatedly causing ecoli outbreaks & death, avian flu from pig farms, etc. Anyway, thank u so much for doing such great work although I can't fathom the meat industry in my province ever abandoning their cash cows, chickens & pigs. None of these creatures should be readied for slaughter in confined lots which are filthy petrie dishes for disease. Your dream farm is a critical beginning. Again I cannot thank you enough for this work & your tenacity & passion to 'right a harmful wrong' which affects us all.
First of all, I am very happy to see you back. You have been missed and it has been discussed a few times in the letters recently. I confess I was concerned enough that I googled to see if you had passed! Glad to see you alive and well.
In my career, I worked in the lab of a major medical facility in Chicago. A few years before I retired, they started a fecal transplant program. I didn't enjoy the smell that permeated the lab when they came down to prep the solution in the lab, but I very much enjoyed talking with the GI docs. For treating C. Diff, one called the transplants "a miracle." And you know, prior to that, they treated C. Diff with antibiotics, with much less success!
Their conversations, and that of articles I read regarding obesity, inspired me to add probiotic supplements to my diet. I was obese. I had dieted many times, very strictly, with little success. I did cut as many refined carbs as I could. I lost 55 pounds. Then I retired, pandemic started, and I got a horribly abscessed tooth. And I started gaining back weight. Since 2018, I've been prescribed antibiotics about 7-8 times. (I am NOT one to take them for no good reason! I even insisted when I had abdominal surgery that they NOT remove my appendix!) Funny that in this time, I am behaving the same, eating the same, but have gained 20 pounds back. :(
I have tried with little success, even with upping my activity levels using a tracker and charting my gym/personal trainer visits. I have cut out all sweets and again, stopped the diet soda, all soda actually. (I believe those sweeteners are more likely to cause weight gain than sugar, but boy are they addictive! And our culture has indoctrinated our brains to believe that we should go for those zero calorie products!!)
I also have a grandchild on the autism spectrum, so this story hit home on so many levels!! After reading, I have forwarded the link to over a dozen people.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this link! And please don't stay away as so many of us value your perspective on the issues discussed here.
A truly excellent endocrinologist might help. The best at BIDMC is Johanna Antonia Pallotta MD. She’s in her 80s. Thyroid illnesses plague many. I know. She is treating me.
Enlightening and simultaneously frightening to learn about the disastrous consequences of antibiotics overuse. Sad to know this drug, originally designed for and thought to be life-saving, could be at the root of so much pain and loss. I have been personally curious for some time now about the meteoric rise of auto-immune diseases that have/are destroying so many lives. Reading about this pharmaceutical “link” supports my long-held belief that finding the “cause” of any single auto-immune disease will swiftly bring about the eradication of all types. Thank you for sharing this article.
Thank you for the gift of this amazing piece and your tenacity in fighting this scourge. I’m forwarding this to my four daughters, all of whom have developed autoimmune problems and my grandson on the spectrum. You have been missed on LFAA.
Jack Lippman, I was born in Manhattan New York on Friday, January 27, 1939. Members of the House of Representatives run every two years to maintain seniority in the House and to rise in Committee assignments. Voters elect younger members over older for potential for longevity.
Thank you for sharing the link, Sandy. And more importantly thank you for asking important questions about the damage being caused by the over use of antibiotics, and for your efforts to bring about changes.
Thank you for sharing this. I may reach out to you with our family's story. It had consumed me 15-20 years ago. The "you are talking crazy" factor and life beat it out of us. I am now going to revisit.
It's good to see you here again, Sandy. I missed you and worried about you. I had a nice vacation, but missed the forum, so came back. Also decided I have things that need to be said. And so do you.
"The Democratic Party cannot seem to find a candidate that speaks English to the poorly educated whites of our pathetic population that surrounds us at Lewis Family Farm."
Good day S B, I also am in the turncoat's district, and am reminded that she ran as a moderate from a district she did not live in, near Saratoga I think, and became what she is soon after. Harvie too.
But the reason I reply is to address your comment I quoted; I wonder why you think the Dems can't communicate with the locals. I have my own ideas, but I would like to hear yours.
Single Elise Stefanik claimed Willsboro Point as her residence. Her Plywood seller father owns a summer camp on the point. Many up here are the Black, Hispanic and Jew hating racists of The North Country. The National Bank president is one of them, was valedictorian of his class at Princeton University, denied partnership at Sullivan & Cromwell for his arrogance.
Thank you sir for your reply. I am reading the Palladium article with interest, since I have tried to research the reasons why a farmer tends to be unwilling to accept new methods. "Accepted practice" doesn't really explain the concept for me, but "herd mentality" comes close. Your experience with the Cornell Vet program is an example. Maybe the Dem candidate who has difficulty communicating isn't viewed as a member of the herd. Here in the Eastern Lake Ontario region the same problems are found.
Tetracycline misuse in livestock to address anaplasmosis is deadly to birds and to us. Kills insect food in the soil. Distressing gut microbial system in livestock and consumers. This creates emotional instability in beef and our young males. The beef will attack farmers addressing their newborn calves. The human teen male get depressed and become suicidal.. generating suicide by cop stuff.
Sandy, these are precisely some of the issues I worked on during my professional career as well as before and after. My work was with the larger ag community, as well as the agencies and corporations. Challenging, sometimes scary. But at the same time, because of the way I set up how I worked with that varied community, I got to know the members of it who stood up to share their concerns about the use of chemicals and worked to help redirect research and policy. Some remarkable successes, but lots still to do: while the movement to soil and water health has grown stronger, the die-hards are pig-headed about not changing, and just dig in, funded by those whose greed created this situation in the first place. This dynamic has become part of the culture in parts of our country. I am distressed by the emphasis on "organic food" as the goal. It is a result of the process, but the point is recreating ways of producing food that does not contaminate everything else, with some of the consequences being the very things you mention.
How many of the diehards are either foreign-owned corporations, or employees of same, and what would be their motivation to protect those affected by excessive antibiotic use apart from profit? I just realized that "anti biotic" has the tragic result built into its name.
I just read the article. Absolutely fascinating and understandable, even for this English major. Two things: keep raising hell and maybe we should have a Heather Cox Richardson fan club convention on your farm!
Great article Sandy. While my mother pushed antibiotics on me like aspirin when I was a kid I thought being cautious in their use was wise in light of the resistance issue. I’d no idea how prevalent the use of antibiotics in our food system had become, nor their human systemic effect. I’ll be changing my habits. Super work you’re supporting. ❤️
GEORGIA FISANICK - Yes, indeed... our Democracy is threatened by White Supremacy in the intolerance of Rep. Elise Stefanik, the elected Representative from my district in the Adirondacks... our Town of Essex Board is an example, our County Board of Supervisors is an example... Fascists rule. The Democratic Party cannot seem to find a candidate that speaks English to the poorly educated whites of our pathetic population that surrounds us at Lewis Family Farm... READ PALLADIUM MAGAZINE ON ME. THE MOST RECENT ISSUE IS ON LINE - WITH A MOVIE... FOUR COLLEGE BOYS CAME AND LEARNED... OUR LOCAL NEWSPAPERS WILL NOT COVER WHAT’S HAPPENING TO LOCAL LIVESTOCK. OUR LOCAL DVMs have joined the nation’s DVMs to poison the livestock to make money... the Palladium Magazine piece is in final edit and will take another week or so - then will be printed in the next issue.. costing $50 when mailed.
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/12/13/are-farm-antibiotics-destroying-our-health/
I just finished reading the article. Amazing... I want everyone to take the time reading it... and I want to learn what more I might able to do to help! I ofter notice the packages in our meta departments that are labeled 'no antibiotics'. I had no idea... How things have gotten so to of control! How can one inspire people to read what is really important! This needs to be circulated widely.... My grandfather was a farmer, small time, in Dubuque. We lived in Chicago and would visit the farm for a couple of weeks every summer. My Mother was the second youngest of 8 kids, and she grew up milking cows, and cleaning the hen house (outdoor plumbing for. many years!). I can't imagine that these antibiotics were widely used then, but I could be mistaken... (she was born in 1914 and there was at least 10 years between her and her oldest sibling... Visiting the farm was so blissful! Thank you for all the work yo have done this far. And the photographs of your farm are beyond lovely. Maybe some day I will have the opportunity to visit... I would love to photograph you and your farm, and write about you and your work. The world needs to know! Thank you again!
Antibiotics were created in the pre-war period as injections. Pill form arrived c. 1950. That was the beginning of trouble. Livestock were fed antibiotics in a growing pattern for decades. This continues. If you visit the Tractors & Supply cash register, two types of chicken feed is sold there. The large bag and the small far more expensive - may be clean of antibiotics. The cheating and lying starts there.
Any chance it could be cracked down on? Exposed? Stopped?
If more people knew about it...?
10,000 thank yous!!!! Finally, someone with the power & wisdom to address the 'elephant in the room!' I am a fam doc who practices in 'feedlot city' aka Southern, Alberta. Since I was a resident in the 1990s physicians (over prescribing) have always been chastized as the cause for our prob w antibiotic resistance. The media never seemed to question the impact of factory farmining as the primary driver, even when feedlot runoff was repeatedly causing ecoli outbreaks & death, avian flu from pig farms, etc. Anyway, thank u so much for doing such great work although I can't fathom the meat industry in my province ever abandoning their cash cows, chickens & pigs. None of these creatures should be readied for slaughter in confined lots which are filthy petrie dishes for disease. Your dream farm is a critical beginning. Again I cannot thank you enough for this work & your tenacity & passion to 'right a harmful wrong' which affects us all.
Lethbridge is home to a powerful beef DVM operation … exclusively livestock.. important in Alberta.
Sandy,
First of all, I am very happy to see you back. You have been missed and it has been discussed a few times in the letters recently. I confess I was concerned enough that I googled to see if you had passed! Glad to see you alive and well.
In my career, I worked in the lab of a major medical facility in Chicago. A few years before I retired, they started a fecal transplant program. I didn't enjoy the smell that permeated the lab when they came down to prep the solution in the lab, but I very much enjoyed talking with the GI docs. For treating C. Diff, one called the transplants "a miracle." And you know, prior to that, they treated C. Diff with antibiotics, with much less success!
Their conversations, and that of articles I read regarding obesity, inspired me to add probiotic supplements to my diet. I was obese. I had dieted many times, very strictly, with little success. I did cut as many refined carbs as I could. I lost 55 pounds. Then I retired, pandemic started, and I got a horribly abscessed tooth. And I started gaining back weight. Since 2018, I've been prescribed antibiotics about 7-8 times. (I am NOT one to take them for no good reason! I even insisted when I had abdominal surgery that they NOT remove my appendix!) Funny that in this time, I am behaving the same, eating the same, but have gained 20 pounds back. :(
I have tried with little success, even with upping my activity levels using a tracker and charting my gym/personal trainer visits. I have cut out all sweets and again, stopped the diet soda, all soda actually. (I believe those sweeteners are more likely to cause weight gain than sugar, but boy are they addictive! And our culture has indoctrinated our brains to believe that we should go for those zero calorie products!!)
I also have a grandchild on the autism spectrum, so this story hit home on so many levels!! After reading, I have forwarded the link to over a dozen people.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this link! And please don't stay away as so many of us value your perspective on the issues discussed here.
84, not dead - yet.
A truly excellent endocrinologist might help. The best at BIDMC is Johanna Antonia Pallotta MD. She’s in her 80s. Thyroid illnesses plague many. I know. She is treating me.
Graves’ Disease is amusing.
Sugar is a killer. Alcohol is trouble. Sudden weight loss is trouble.
Enlightening and simultaneously frightening to learn about the disastrous consequences of antibiotics overuse. Sad to know this drug, originally designed for and thought to be life-saving, could be at the root of so much pain and loss. I have been personally curious for some time now about the meteoric rise of auto-immune diseases that have/are destroying so many lives. Reading about this pharmaceutical “link” supports my long-held belief that finding the “cause” of any single auto-immune disease will swiftly bring about the eradication of all types. Thank you for sharing this article.
Very eye-opening article, thanks for sharing!
The article will be edited. Strengthened.
Thank you for the gift of this amazing piece and your tenacity in fighting this scourge. I’m forwarding this to my four daughters, all of whom have developed autoimmune problems and my grandson on the spectrum. You have been missed on LFAA.
Auto immune and spectrum stuff is often label and little more. I’ve worked with each. Dislike labels. They confuse and cause confusion.
Isn't Stefanik your Representative in Congress? Would you consider running against her?
Elise is our Representative in NY’s 21st. It’s a Republican district. Democrats bomb out. The GOP primary is meaningless without Party support.
Stefanik's predecessor, Bill Owens, was a Democrat... but redistricting has obviously made the 21st more Republican than before.
Rep. Bill Owens (D) was a cigar store Indian. Not bright. Sen. Ron Stafford helped him. It did not matter.
Jack Lippman, I was born in Manhattan New York on Friday, January 27, 1939. Members of the House of Representatives run every two years to maintain seniority in the House and to rise in Committee assignments. Voters elect younger members over older for potential for longevity.
Sandy ... I am seven years your senior and see your point.
Hang on.
Perhaps... aging in place...
YES! DO it!
Thank you for sending this article. Read it and then shared it too.
Sandy it’s so nice to have you back!
https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/12/13/are-farm-antibiotics-destroying-our-health/
Thank you for sharing the link, Sandy. And more importantly thank you for asking important questions about the damage being caused by the over use of antibiotics, and for your efforts to bring about changes.
Thank you for sharing this. I may reach out to you with our family's story. It had consumed me 15-20 years ago. The "you are talking crazy" factor and life beat it out of us. I am now going to revisit.
Excellent article!! Thank you!!
Thank you for sharing this article. I agree, the evidence is building regarding the dangers of inappropriate antibiotic use.
And, so glad to see you here again!
Jeanne
Yes. I got lonely.
It's good to see you here again, Sandy. I missed you and worried about you. I had a nice vacation, but missed the forum, so came back. Also decided I have things that need to be said. And so do you.
Phew! Your absence was worrisome! I love the work you are doing, it’s an immense project.
Well, it is my honor to learn about you, and your work. And, thanks so much for posting the link to Palladium.
I’m going to learn more on these subjects and want to learn how I can become a consumer of your products!
Congratulations and best wishes to you Mr. Lewis.
I’ve been hoping you were working on an autobiography
A memoir… more than one.
😁🥳🎉👏🏼
Welcome Back Sandy!
❤️
😃
"The Democratic Party cannot seem to find a candidate that speaks English to the poorly educated whites of our pathetic population that surrounds us at Lewis Family Farm."
Good day S B, I also am in the turncoat's district, and am reminded that she ran as a moderate from a district she did not live in, near Saratoga I think, and became what she is soon after. Harvie too.
But the reason I reply is to address your comment I quoted; I wonder why you think the Dems can't communicate with the locals. I have my own ideas, but I would like to hear yours.
Democrats and Republicans in the District are equally racist. The Common Denominator of American Politics is Racism.
That's a bumper sticker for sure: The Common Denominator of American Politics is Racism. Explains a lot. Thank you, sir.
Single Elise Stefanik claimed Willsboro Point as her residence. Her Plywood seller father owns a summer camp on the point. Many up here are the Black, Hispanic and Jew hating racists of The North Country. The National Bank president is one of them, was valedictorian of his class at Princeton University, denied partnership at Sullivan & Cromwell for his arrogance.
Thank you sir for your reply. I am reading the Palladium article with interest, since I have tried to research the reasons why a farmer tends to be unwilling to accept new methods. "Accepted practice" doesn't really explain the concept for me, but "herd mentality" comes close. Your experience with the Cornell Vet program is an example. Maybe the Dem candidate who has difficulty communicating isn't viewed as a member of the herd. Here in the Eastern Lake Ontario region the same problems are found.
Tetracycline misuse in livestock to address anaplasmosis is deadly to birds and to us. Kills insect food in the soil. Distressing gut microbial system in livestock and consumers. This creates emotional instability in beef and our young males. The beef will attack farmers addressing their newborn calves. The human teen male get depressed and become suicidal.. generating suicide by cop stuff.
Sandy, these are precisely some of the issues I worked on during my professional career as well as before and after. My work was with the larger ag community, as well as the agencies and corporations. Challenging, sometimes scary. But at the same time, because of the way I set up how I worked with that varied community, I got to know the members of it who stood up to share their concerns about the use of chemicals and worked to help redirect research and policy. Some remarkable successes, but lots still to do: while the movement to soil and water health has grown stronger, the die-hards are pig-headed about not changing, and just dig in, funded by those whose greed created this situation in the first place. This dynamic has become part of the culture in parts of our country. I am distressed by the emphasis on "organic food" as the goal. It is a result of the process, but the point is recreating ways of producing food that does not contaminate everything else, with some of the consequences being the very things you mention.
How many of the diehards are either foreign-owned corporations, or employees of same, and what would be their motivation to protect those affected by excessive antibiotic use apart from profit? I just realized that "anti biotic" has the tragic result built into its name.
Exactly. You got it, Ed. Right on the nose. That is why sometimes my job was scary.
Thank you!
Organic label in Vermont is often fraud.
Kent Henderson DVM of VT was honest with me. Understood the fraud.
Ed, never too old...
Sandy! Been wondering where you were.
Me too!
Glad to hear from you Sandy. I have missed your comments of late.
s B Lewis, for those of us not in your local area, what does DVM stand for?
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Doctor of veterinary medicine
I can't wait to read it...but you said it costs $50? Can it be downloaded for less?
Free on the internet, I think. It’s being edited next week. A few details are still being worked.
I just read the article. Absolutely fascinating and understandable, even for this English major. Two things: keep raising hell and maybe we should have a Heather Cox Richardson fan club convention on your farm!
Why not? We will serve organic grass fed beef 🥩 and food from Essex Farm and Echo Farm.
Great article Sandy. While my mother pushed antibiotics on me like aspirin when I was a kid I thought being cautious in their use was wise in light of the resistance issue. I’d no idea how prevalent the use of antibiotics in our food system had become, nor their human systemic effect. I’ll be changing my habits. Super work you’re supporting. ❤️
I will look for it.
Mr. Lewis, sir, good to see you back here!