Homeopathy research funding pledged in an effort to find an alternative to antibiotics.
The European Parliament’s agriculture committee has just agreed to fund a major research project (valued at almost three million dollars) on the homeopathic treatment of cattle, sheep and pigs.
The move comes at a time of growing concern about the widespread use of antibiotics and other drugs prescribed to farm animals in conventional veterinary medicine and their passage into the food chain.
The concern is not confined to Europe. Last year Joshua M. Sharfstein of the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), sent a message to US farmers … Read the rest...