Debt Rattle November 19 2015

[Raúl Ilargi Meijer]

Wyland Stanley REO taxicab, San Francisco 1924 • China’s Steel Industry Peers Into Abyss as Output to Plunge (Bloomberg) • Rio Tinto’s Optimistic Abou
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 19 2015]

[Greenpa]

“Only solution: immediate ban on feeding livestock antibiotics. Which won’t happen because the chemical industry likes its profits too much.”

Not only the chem industry, but Big Pharm (only slightly different) and Big Farm. Industrial agriculture is totally addicted to antibiotics- and the hard reality is, they no longer have any farmers in their systems who know how to do without. Real farmers were replaced with unskilled labor, years ago. “Just feed them this, and punch the time clock.”

The other huge antibiotic problem we have, which is kept as quiet as possible by those involved, is biofuels. Both ethanol and any biodiesel process involving microbes use immense quantities of antibiotics to prevent their fermentation tanks from rapidly evolving wild microbial ecosystems. And in the case of corn ethanol- after fermenting with trained yeasts and antibiotics- and oh, those few bacteria which have now evolved to live in that stew anyway, resistant- the industries take off the ethanol, yes? But that leaves “distillers solids” – millions of tons. What do they do with it? Why – feed it to livestock, of course; more profit; and oh, yeah, the transmission of resistant microbes directly into CAFO livestock stomachs.

What could possibly go wrong?

Reality – evolutionary scientists pointed this out before the practices were put in place. Action? Hey; let’s have some committees look into it.

[seychelles]

“The entire world economy rests on the consumer;
if he ever stops spending money he doesn’t have
on things he doesn’t need — we’re done for.”
— Bill Bonner
What the indebted world economy needs is a good purgative.

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