Farmers still using banned drugs - UK

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Farmers are still pumping pigs with growth hormones, years after the European Union ruled out their use because of worries about the effect on humans, the organic lobby group Soil Association says.

"Antibiotics are still being used to force pigs to grow unnaturally quickly, despite a ban and amid fears about the impact on human health," the Soil Association said on Monday.

It has been illegal for EU farmers to use certain antibiotics to make pigs grow faster since 1999, but sales of the growth-enhancing drugs have soared in recent years, the group said.

EU health ministers pushed through the restrictions on their sale because of concerns they could reduce human resistance to similar drugs.

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1. This is gross but ..

a couple of years ago I read that Holland constructed
pig hotels.

The floors are grated so that excrement falls from the
upper floor to the floor beneath it and so on.

When they eat it, they put on weight much faster.

If you eat pork, COOK it.