Alderspring Organic No Pesticides

Pesticides and Insecticides
Most beef (including much sold under natural beef labels) have been treated with insecticides to control external and internal parasites. Most internal parasites are controlled with a pour-on external treatment (read carefully here- yes, an insecticide applied to the back of an animal will eliminate or reduce internal parasites). These pesticides are often artificial estrogens, endocrine interrupters or organophosphates (similar to “nerve gas”). Mark Purdey, an organic dairy farmer from England believes organophosphates trigger “mad cow” disease, and hormone mimics have recently come under scrutiny as the cause of many modern diseases (See OUR STOLEN FUTURE.)

While there is a recommended withdrawal time before sending beef to market, we have never noted any testing, nor has anyone ever questioned us whether an animal we’ve sold had been recently treated. Additionally, over 90% of all hamburger consumed in the U.S. is blended with imported beef and beef byproducts (Commerce Department figures), and we are skeptical of the purity of these imported products.

Living healthy lives on grass in our arid climate, our cows have not had a problem with internal parasites. We do sometimes use a pyrethroid-based ear tag on the mother cows to reduce irritation from biting face-flies and a pyrethroid-based fly spray on wounds to reduce potential for infection spread by insects. We don’t tag young calves. Pyrethroids are synthetic versions of pyrethrins, which are derived from Chrysanthemum flowers.
We also use NO pesticides or insecticides on our fields, which were certified organic in early 2005.

Coverup- Insecticides cause mad cow disease

Eye on Ireland 13 December 2000
Pharmaceutical interests in the UK are ignoring new scientific research that shows the insecticide used in the UK government’s own warble-fly campaigns triggered the surge of ‘Mad Cow’ disease.
Latest experiments by Cambridge University prion specialist, David R. Brown, have shown that manganese bonds with prions to cause BSE. Other researchers’ unpublished work shows that prions in the bovine spine –along which insecticides are applied– can be damaged by ICI’s Phosmet organophosphate(OP) insecticide -causing the disease…..