Livestock fueling new viruses in developing countries
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from:msnbc.comGrowing number of farm animals spawn new diseases
Seeded on Fri Feb 11, 2011 2:19 PM EST (msnbc.com)
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WOW, what do you expect when you inject them with rBGH, 240 MILLION pounds of anti-biotics last year and feed them GMO corn!!
Want to buy: Someone with common sense in the FDA and USDA. Willing to eat healthy food and not be a burden to the health care problem if this happens.
Patrick
I understand factory farms spreading disease, also the fact that cow eat an undigestable corn diet is a problem...please explain how GMO is the cause of disease.
So, it's the cow grazing on grass in the swiss alps spreading disease, not the one on a US factory farm eating GMO's and standing up to its knees in cow feces. Corporate sponsered media can make you laugh sometimes.
Jim,
I saw a "feed lot" off of the I-5 in Kings County, CA. While the steers were being "fattened and finished" they sere standing on a small mountain of compatcted steer feces and one could smell this place before passing it with the windows up.
Maybe there should be a volunteer group similar to "Doctors Without Borders" named "Veterinarians (Vets) Without Borders."
Better to track and treat zoonoses where they originate rather than waiting until they cross borders...
This is proof why everyone should be vegetarian. LOL!! JUST KIDDING! Could you imagine....
The poor animals are eating genetically modified grass which does not contain the proper nutrients as organic grass. Since Monsanto gets away with this, we will also suffer in the long run.
Don't forget, it wasn't long ago that there were large numbers of particular animals dying or diseased. Natural occurance or ramification?
If we can't fix our animal husbandry methods to produce healthy victims, maybe we'll have to go vegan someday in self-defense!
Well, if you were a vegetarian world everyone would have enough food and fewer diseases. Skip eating for a couple days or just spend $2.00 a day on food and decide how you want to vote.
Fast food is something I will not touch. I save 40% by eating things from grocery stores, but try to find one with a hiway sign:)
I also use my SUV as a motel and take a $10.00 shower at a truck stop and even buy a cup of coffee....I could make my own at a rest stop along with some rolled oats and some fruit.
austerity or bust
Most places I stop that have showers only allow truckers and one must have a driver's card.
So, @charles andrew...you're a homeless vegetarian who subsists on $2.00 a day for food, but you require the use of a $10.00 shower every day? Isn't wasting all that water and soap bad for the ecosystem? I mean, think of all the towels you require to be laundered. More soap and water....
PS...if everyone went vegetarian, we'd all have enough food and fewer diseases because no one would want to eat just veggies and we'd lose a lot to starvation and malnutrition.
Crowded living conditions in concentrated animal feed operations, combined with the prophylactic use of antibiotics in these animals, have caused the majority of the new zoonotic diseases to emerge. It's a joke to claim the problem can be solved by hiring more disease monitors in third world nations--the solution lies right here in the United States, because the problem began here. Apparently third world nations don't have very effective lobbyists in Washington, D.C.
@Ohio Republican mom, I think the word you;re looking for is prolific. Prophylactic use means you're using a condom.
Also, what animal diseases originated here in the USA?
Make sure to include bean and alfafa sprouts, spinach, and lettuce in your vegan diet. All are great sources for vitamins and minerals and salmonella and e-coli contamination.
We should eschew corn fed animals and go back to grass fed. Would cost more but both humans and animals would be a lot healthier. Bison is a good alternative to beef.
This confirms my thoughts that we should all be vegetarian. It would be the most healthy diet for all peoples, and also for our planet. We simply can't sustain a meat centered diet, environmentally and economically. I am glad my two daughters are not in danger of getting many diseases simiply because they are vegetarian!