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caused through mismanagement of animals.
The H5N1 Virus
In 2003 a particularly dangerous strain
of bird flu began to spread from the far east, eventually arriving
in Europe by 2006. Similar to a bird flu that killed more than 50
people in 1918 this new "dangerous-to-other animals-and-potentially-humans"
strain called H5N1 has caused displaced panic, mainly through ignorance
and people's irrational way in which to cope with it. In fact at
the time of writing, H5N1 has still not been passed from one person
to another.
By early February 2007 a massive outbreak of the deadly H5N1 variant
had killed thousands of turkeys in a Bernard Mathews battery farm
in Suffolk, England. A generally useless UK government body called
DEFRA swung into action and quickly disposed of all remaining 150,000
birds inside the huge, crammed turkey sheds. In their infinite wisdom,
DEFRA then had the virus ridden carcasses transported 200 miles
across the UK to be incinerated, further increasing the risk of
spreading the infection due to insufficiently sealed / decontaminated
lorries. (Governments everywhere think that just by cleaning tyres
on a truck, this will be enough to stop the spread of disease!)
This intense (but very predictable) outbreak in a high density poultry
farm in the West simply shows that not just China, but anywhere
in the world where birds/animals are crammed into confined spaces
in large numbers, disease will spread rapidly.
While many still continue to inhumanely cram their domestic fowl
into confined spaces and carry on their lives, regardless of the
lethal cocktail of disease they have created, others (particularly
governments with shortsighted methods of dealing with the crisis)
dish out misinformation and mixed-up methods in how to deal with
the spreading problem.
Bird flu, or any flu for that mattter, does not recognize country
borders ... and the way it is handled should be based on a global
commonsense approach. But that's not how most humans think, and
with diversified governments unable to establish rational and humane
solutions, animals in particular look like they will always be used
as the scapegoat in such situations. But killing healthy animals
is the most destabilizing approach any authority or individual can
take.
SARS is a virus which was also "created" through extreme
cross-contamination in bird /animal markets and farms in the far
east. The deadly version of "Avian Flu" was formed just
in this way and so is Swine flu. To stop these potentially dangerous
diseases from continually being created and spread so virulently
in the first place, it has to be stamped out at the source. And
that means banning cramped / intensive farming techniques in all
countries; most notably the far east, central / south America and
Africa. The trade practice of live poultry and animals being cramped
together in filthy, disease-riddled markets should also be banned
immediately.
The man-made rise and rise
of infectious disease - including foot and mouth
Let's now go back to 2000 and the
Foot and Mouth crisis in the UK.
Any animal friendly person will remember how the entire handling
of the situation was an insane, criminal sham right from the start.
Because of greedy, overzealous farmers and irrational government
orders, tens of thousands more animals were actually killed than
would have died naturally if the disease had been allowed to pass
through the farm animal chain without interference, whereby some
would have died but many would have survived and built up resistance
to pass on to the next generation. But instead, farmers grabbed
the opportunity to get rid of all their animals, because they had
quickly worked out that the financial compensation they would receive
from the government was far higher than the money they would normally
get selling their animals at market. There were even reports that
farmers were deliberately infecting their animals with Foot and
Mouth just so they could claim the compensation; This was done by
borrowing an infected cow or a sheep from an infected farm and bringing
it into contact with their own, otherwise healthy flock or herd.
And so, because no animal was left alive to pass any stronger, natural
immunity to its offspring, Foot and Mouth will return just as virulently,
to infect a new generation of animals sometime in the future ...
and farmers can look forward to another financial windfall.
And what about the reaction of the British public during all this?
A tear was shed by some as TV news showed thousands of animals burning
in huge pyres across the UK ... a typical emotional reaction by
a UK public who go dewy-eyed at the sight of a fluffy bunny on an
animal rescue program. But just a few months later in August 2001
British television reported that consumers where back in the butchers
to buy meat by the kilo... That's right ... the same British public
now had the audacity to pat themselves on the back as they rushed
to the shops to stock up on more and more meat. This, said the reports,
was apparently to "show support and sympathy for the (now much richer)
British meat farmer". One news report said that a supermarket chain
was requesting more lambs to be slaughtered to meet public demand.
On the internet, a UK website sprung up called "Pig Brother",
inviting the British to vote to kill a pig ... all in support of
British farmers.
This kind of jingoistic absurdity isn't just confined to the UK
when it comes to animal diseases affecting its international trade
and consumerism. During the bird flu epidemic in 2006, European
meat-eaters revel in imperious support of poultry farmers, (while
the farmers themselves look forward to profitable compensation!)
BSE ...
BSE, better known as Mad cow disease
is a variant of scabies which is normally found in sheep. In all
cases and variants of these incurable diseases, they were caused
by animals being fed the ground-up meat and bones of their own species
mixed in their feed. It's now even suggested by scientists that
the human variant, CJD is caused by cattle been fed traces of crushed
human remains mixed up in the feed, (most animal feed was imported
from India where human material in the feed has been traced to corpses
disposed of in rivers, in accordance with Hindu funeral customs).
Therefore the CJD variant in humans was created by ourselves, inadvertently
adding traces of human remains to cattle feed, which has then been
transferred back to humans when eating beef. In all cases, cows,
sheep and humans have been feeding off the remains of their own
species, a process which is entirely unnatural and ultimately leading
to horrific consequences.
Note: There was an epidemic of a CJD variant in New Guinea called
"Kuru" where cannibalism was common place. Since cannibalism
has disappeared, so has Kuru.
Aids ...
There is still no absolute proof how
aids developed but most theories stem from some kind of simian based
transference, either by medicine made from the ground organs of
monkeys, sexual transference from monkeys, or eating them etc. Other
theories suggest that HIV may have been artificially created in
a laboratory from where the virus escaped. But wherever it came
from, it was induced by humans acting irresponsibly; playing with
science or using animals as a means to an end.
Animal Diseases for
Dummies © 2006/7 - VeggieGlobal and Looking-Glass
Part 3:
What
you should and should not do in a bird flu crisis
See Also:
Part
1: Introduction and Viewpoint
Britain's
H5N1 Outbreak in 2007
More on BSE / CJD origins
at:
www.dailymail.co.uk
http://whyfiles.org/012mad_cow/6.html
Useful info on bird flu:
http://www.fmi.org/foodsafety/avian_flu.htm
http://www.fmi.org/foodsafety/Avian_Influenza.pdf
Useful info on swine flu:
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/investigation.htm
Aids:
Help to educate third world countries
about the importance of wearing condoms as well as abstinence to
help stop the spread of Aids:
http://www.avert.org/about.htm
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