Did I say we sell hormone Growth Promotants

 

this quote in another thread got me thinking... are there any 'banned substances' in the hobby?

 

I am sure that nubbly5, was not advising people to fill their birds with steroids or the like but just got me curious... Do we need a new catagory? GM or maybe even go the other way, Organic.

No there is no Child living in poverty in Australia.... "Bob Hawke"

Impossible to police Jimmy, I did know an industrial chemist, who had BIG birds but when you took them home they shrunk. He must have fed them something!

There has been some breeders that pump there birds so high on Suppliments that when the birds are sold and are not feed the same suppliments, they deteriate and many die... You get to know / hear who does this and try to stay away from them.

No there is no Child living in poverty in Australia.... "Bob Hawke"

 

Haha, The quote you are refering to is one of my favourite all time quotes from Australian politics. The miraculas thing is Australians voted him in after he said that!!! I can only imagine just how bad the opposition must of been...

 

Impossible to police Jimmy, I did know an industrial chemist, who had BIG birds but when you took them home they shrunk. He must have fed them something!

 

Don't think testing for drugs would be impossible to police, just think it would be way to costly for a hobby like ours. As for the Organics and GM though, that would be extremely difficult! You'd almost need to have spot checks done and raid bird rooms

I can just see the Budgie SWAT team now...

Did I say we sell hormone Growth Promotants

 

this quote in another thread got me thinking... are there any 'banned substances' in the hobby?

 

I am sure that nubbly5, was not advising people to fill their birds with steroids or the like but just got me curious... Do we need a new catagory? GM or maybe even go the other way, Organic.

 

Well banned substances in sports such as horse racing are generally based on performance enhancing products and pharmacuiticals. I'm not too sure why or how anyone in the budgerigar world would manage to buy or use performance enhancing products on their birds.

 

You might be able to use cattle HGP's crushed down and added to soft food maybe, but it would be hard to purchase without owning cattle, expensive and potentially difficult to get a good result from seeing as the products are designed for cattle growth not budgie growth. Testosterone which used to be freely available in rural merchandise shops to stop pizzle rot in sheep has been withdrawn for many years after weightlifters and bidy builders discovered that they could purchase it and inject themselves (I presume that protected THEM against pizzle rot too ). What else could you use, antibiotics as a prophlactic treatment to limit any setbacks due to bacterial infections - we can use them now anyway.

 

Making people buy or use GM free or go organic...... well surely we still have freedom of choice as to what food we buy. I would not like to be told by you or anyone that I HAD to use organic produce. I KNOW what the e.coli count on organic eggs is compared to cage grown and as far as food safety goes I KNOW what I would buy (this is no comment on welfare issues by the way - that's a separate arguement). And as far a GM crops are concerned - if we don't start looking logically at technological advances to feed people, more and more people will starve. The UK (one the biggest proponents of the GM free and organic produce movement) went from a net export of food products to a net importer - they cannot even feed their own population now! I'm not saying GM is the answer but if we always view technology as the enemy we will miss out on things that will help feed the world.

 

My rant over.....

Rant away Nubbly, its obviously something you feel strongly about