Bird Flu Uncovered: The Silent Threat Lurking in Our Backyards and How You Can Outsmart It Today
Eating to Beat Bird Flu
The journal of the APHA published an editorial entitled “The Chickens Come Home to Roost” that went beyond just calling for a deintensification of the pork and poultry industries. The editorial questioned the prudence of raising so many animals for food in the first place, given the pandemic threat they may pose: “It is curious, therefore, that changing the way humans treat animals, most basically ceasing to eat them, or at the very least, radically limiting the quantity of them that are eaten—is largely off the radar as a significant preventive measure. Such a change, if sufficiently adopted or imposed, could still reduce the chances of the much-feared influenza epidemic. It would be even more likely to prevent unknown future diseases that, in the absence of this change, may result from farming animals intensively and killing them for food. Yet humanity doesn’t even consider this option.”
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