Or have you ever used
colloidal silver prophylactically, which is to say, to help prevent the onset
of infection and disease in a farm animal or pet?
If so, you could be in
violation of FDA policies. Here’s a story
of blatant FDA hypocrisy you might not be aware of…
Hi, Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...
You may not realize it, but on the Animal and Veterinary
section of their website, the FDA has issued a special
warning titled “Colloidal Silver Not Approved.”
The warning, originally issued in 1997 and updated in 2009,
explains the FDA’s position against the use of colloidal silver in farm animals,
calling it a “potentially serious public health concern.”
In short, by FDA decree, colloidal silver cannot be used to
treat farm animals, nor can it be advertised even as a nutritional intervention
for farm animals for any specific disease.
Ridiculous Reasoning…
The FDA claims the reason they've disapproved the use of
colloidal silver in farm animals is because of the possibility of “residues” of
silver ending up in the milk or meat once it makes it to the supermarket.
Here’s the FDA’s own words (underlining mine):
"Use of colloidal silver
ingredients in food-producing animals constitutes a potentially serious public
health concern because of the possibility of residues in milk or meat.
According to several scientific
publications mentioned in the October 15, 1996 Federal Register proposal, the
human consumption of silver may result in argyria -- a permanent ashen-gray or
blue discoloration of the skin, conjunctiva, and internal organs."
Of course, there's not a single documented incident on
record anywhere in the world of a
person ending up with argyria – or being harmed in any way whatsoever -- from
eating meat from a farm animal that had previously been treated with colloidal
silver.
So not only is the FDA’s warning hyperbolic, but their
reasoning is disingenuous, at best, and outright deceptive at worst.
Your Pets, Too!
But the FDA doesn’t stop there. Nope.
Instead, they double down on their warning against treating farm animals
with colloidal silver by saying (underlining mine):
“In addition to the possible human
health concerns, use of these products to treat a serious illness in animals
(including pets) could potentially endanger the health of the animal by
delaying timely, appropriate treatment.”
Note here that the FDA includes family pets in their hyperbolic warning.
In other words, if you give some colloidal silver to a farm
animal, or to one of your pets,
according to the FDA you’re potentially endangering the health of your animal
“by delaying timely, appropriate treatment.”
And exactly what
is this “timely and appropriate treatment” the FDA is talking about? Why, it’s Big Pharma’s antibiotic drugs, of course!
The FDA goes on to say that their inspectors “have found
colloidal silver on some dairy farms,” and that they’re “continuing to
investigate the promotion and use of colloidal silver in dairy and other
animals.”
Here’s what the FDA wrote (underlining mine):
Colloidal silver-containing
products have not been approved by FDA for use in any animal species.
Promoting the use of colloidal
silver for treating animal diseases causes such products to be misbranded
veterinary drugs under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act).
Labeling colloidal silver
products to treat animals causes such products to be new animal drugs which are
adulterated under the Act.
FDA has taken action against
colloidal silver products, and is continuing to investigate the promotion and
use of colloidal silver products in dairy and other animals.
If necessary, FDA will take further
appropriate regulatory action.
Indeed, since publishing this warning on their website, the
FDA has issued stern warning
letters to colloidal silver vendors who even dare to mention the use of
their colloidal silver products for animals, calling the products “mislabeled”
and “adulterated.”
And in online FDA memorandums
to their own dairy inspection agents, colloidal silver is listed as a
“prohibited drug” along with Nitrofurazone, Baytril, Chloramphenicol,
Clenbuterol, DMSO and Dipyrone.
And, in various online documents, the FDA continues to
emphasize to its field agents that colloidal silver cannot be used for farm
animals. Even topical ointments
containing miniscule amounts of colloidal silver cannot be used.
For example,
check out this brief question and answer I found in a recent FDA
memorandum:
PMO-Section 7, Item 15r
(Question): May a dairy producer use an udder and teat
topical ointment that contains colloidal silver on dairy animals?
The topical ointment contains a
minimal amount of colloidal silver as a preservative.
(Answer) No. Using such a topical
ointment on dairy animals may cause some of the silver to end up in the
milk.
What it boils down to is that even in the most miniscule amounts, colloidal silver cannot be used
on farm animals – even topically –
because of the off-chance that “some of the silver” might end up in food
products that will ultimately be sold to consumers, such as milk or meat.
The Hypocrisy Is
Galling
Yes, hypocritically, to this very day the FDA allows farmers
to use as many of Big Pharma’s synthetic antibiotic drugs as they want on farm animals,
without any restriction whatsoever.
Powerful antibiotic drugs can even be used on healthy farm animals, without
restriction, from birth to slaughterhouse, in order to help keep them from
becoming infected in the overcrowded and unsanitary living conditions they’re often
raised in.
And of course these endless rounds of antibiotic drugs being
given to the farm animals end up in the meat you (and your children and
grandchildren) eat. And they contribute directly
to antibiotic-resistant illness in humans.
According to the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial
Farming, the situation is very serious:
“…up to 70 percent of all
antibiotics sold in the United States go to healthy
food animals.
The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention all testified before Congress…
… that there was a definitive link between the
routine, non-therapeutic uses of antibiotics in food animal production and the
crisis of antibiotic resistance in humans.”
In other words, the more antibiotic-laden meat you eat, the
more likely it is that prescription antibiotic drugs won’t work for you if you get a serious infection from a
drug-resistant pathogen!
Yet, in spite of that clear connection between antibiotic
drug use in food animals and antibiotic drug-resistance in humans, the FDA has adamantly
refused to limit the use of antibiotic drugs in farm animals.
And of course, farmers who would like to switch to using
safe, natural colloidal silver on their animals in order to avoid selling the
public antibiotic drug-tainted meat or milk are actually restricted from doing so by the FDA!
94,000 Deaths Per
Year!
The result?
Thanks to the over-use of prescription antibiotic drugs on
farm animals, an astonishing 50% of all farm animals
destined for a supermarket near you now test positive for superbugs like MRSA,
which kill over 94,000 Americans per year!
So the FDA continues to allow the indiscriminate use of
antibiotic drugs on farm animals, even
though this practice is clearly endangering the health of the American
public.
But if you try to use safe, natural colloidal silver on your
cows, sheep, goats or other farm animals (or pets) in order to avoid having to
use antibiotic drugs, you're engaging in a “potentially serious public health concern”
according to the FDA.
And you’re in violation of their policies!
Protecting Big Pharma
Once again, what we see here is the FDA protecting the
interests of Big Pharma, as well as the medical profession (in this case, veterinarians).
What it boils down to is that using colloidal silver as a
nutritional intervention for your sick farm animal or pet, or as a nutritional means
of helping prevent the onset of an
infection, is represented by the FDA as a “threat” to public safety as well as
to the animal’s well-being.
But somehow, treating the same food animals indiscriminately
with Big Pharma’s antibiotic drugs (that are known to lead to deadly drug-resistant
bacterial infections in humans) is not
considered a threat to public safety.
Looking at the facts, one can only conclude that while the
FDA is supposed to be working for the safety and well-being of the American
public, it seems instead they’re working only to line the pockets of Big Pharma
and the medical profession -- and the American public be damned!
Potential Criminals
In essence, they’ve turned farmers (and pet owners!) who
prefer to use safe, natural colloidal silver on their animals rather than
antibiotic drugs into potential criminals
for violating FDA policies.
Even though there’s no evidence whatsoever that giving
colloidal silver to farm animals (or to pets) has ever harmed a single animal, or a single human being, the FDA would have you think doing so is a
“potentially serious public health concern.”
Interestingly, there’s never been a single documented case
of a human being becoming resistant to the powerful infection-fighting
qualities of colloidal silver. Even
people who have taken colloidal silver for decades
find that it still kills infections when they use it.
Yet there are thousands upon thousands of documented cases of humans becoming resistant to Big
Pharma’s antibiotic drugs, and of ending up with unstoppable drug-resistant
infections that ultimately kill them.
And according to the experts, this is due largely to the massive
overuse of Big Pharma’s antibiotic drugs in farm
animals, which drugs end up in the food chain for humans to consume.
So through their policies, the FDA actually forces farmers
to feed the American public antibiotic-tainted meat and milk from food animals
that have been indiscriminately treated with antibiotic drugs their entire
lives.
Yet FDA policies restrict those same farmers from feeding
the American public meat or milk from animals that have been treated with safe,
natural colloidal silver.
No Surprise
Of course, this is no big surprise. The FDA’s heavy-handed 1999 “Final Ruling”
against colloidal silver actually made it illegal for colloidal silver vendors
to even mention the
infection-fighting qualities of their product in their advertising or product labeling.
That’s how the FDA keeps the American public in the dark –
at the behest of Big Pharma – in regards to the powerful healing and
infection-fighting qualities of colloidal silver, the world’s safest and most
powerful all-natural antibiotic substance.
And that’s why it’s so important for people to spread the
word about the powerful, infection-fighting qualities of safe, natural colloidal
silver to your family, friends and loved ones.
After all, the FDA is doing everything in its power to keep
knowledge of colloidal silver and its many healing uses from the American
public.
You can learn more about making and using colloidal silver for just pennies per quart by clicking the link
in this sentence.
Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another great article
on colloidal silver.
Yours for the safe, sane and responsible
use of colloidal silver,
Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
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