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Wait, let me make sure I am understanding this. So Tramadol was given to cattle in such large amounts that it made it into the soil and enough got soaked up by
by knd775 12y ago
Wait, let me make sure I am understanding this. So Tramadol was given to cattle in such large amounts that it made it into the soil and enough got soaked up by trees that it was thought that Tramadol came from those trees.
That is just incredible.
- lobotryas 12y agoIt's the circle of life!
- acchow 12y agoI only wish we could get a wikipedia-news-citation cycle in on this story.
- johndavi 12y agoOnce enough is coming up through grassblades then farmers can cease giving it to the cattle directly. The holy grail of Unlimited Tramadol!
- gcb0 12y agoDrugs company hates him! now seriously, where do one find such abundance of opiates to feed cows of?!
- bayesianhorse 12y agoTramadol seems to be relatively cheap to produce, and has all sorts of uses beyond just pain medication.
- ceol 12y agoI'm not sure if you're joking, but opiates are grown from opium poppy plants, so that would be a good place to start if you actually wanted an abundance to feed to animals. Tramadol, however, is an opioid, which is a term that encompasses both opiates and synthetic opiate-like drugs -- of which Tramadol falls in the latter.
- gcb4 12y agothat's the point. synthetic opiates are not cheap. and those farmers are feeding herd with it.
- philosoft 12y agoExacerbated by the animals seeking shade near the trees and then relieving themselves in the shade.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoI didn't even know that Frankie Boyle had taken up farming.
- gwern 12y agoThis may also be a tribute to the sensitivity of modern chemistry's tests.
- robert_tweed 12y agoCan't help but be reminded of the Wikipedia circular citation phenomenon - http://xkcd.com/978/ http://xkcd.com/978/