Eating animals
Eating Animals
In his book Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer points out that the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, in their 2005 report, "argued that a major impact of factory farming is 'the rapid selection and amplification of pathogens that arise from a virulent ancestor (frequently by subtle mutation), thus there is increasing risk for disease entrance and/or dissemination.' Breeding genetically uniform and sickness- prone birds in the overcrowded, stressful, feces-infested, and artificially lit conditions of factory farms promotes the growth and mutation of pathogens. The 'cost of increased efficiency,' the report concludes, is increased global risk for disease. Our choice is simple: cheap chicken or our health" The convience of eating cheap chicken is not worth our health because it will cause a pandemic and a list of other diseases. The way chickens are processed at a factory farm puts us on the verge of a pandemic. Factory farm chickens are treated inhumanely for our ability to have quicker access to them as a meal.
Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated rooms is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damaged, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms. The chickens being raised in a factory farm that we eat are treated this way and because of that we are on the verge of pandemic.
A pandemic is a very severe flu that can go worldwide and can kill a lot of people in a short period of time and spreads from animals to people. Health authorities today fear precisely such an event. Many insist that a pandemic based on the H5N1 virus strain is inevitable, and the question is really one of when it will strike and, most important, just how severe it will be. The 1918
In his book Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer points out that the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, in their 2005 report, "argued that a major impact of factory farming is 'the rapid selection and amplification of pathogens that arise from a virulent ancestor (frequently by subtle mutation), thus there is increasing risk for disease entrance and/or dissemination.' Breeding genetically uniform and sickness- prone birds in the overcrowded, stressful, feces-infested, and artificially lit conditions of factory farms promotes the growth and mutation of pathogens. The 'cost of increased efficiency,' the report concludes, is increased global risk for disease. Our choice is simple: cheap chicken or our health" The convience of eating cheap chicken is not worth our health because it will cause a pandemic and a list of other diseases. The way chickens are processed at a factory farm puts us on the verge of a pandemic. Factory farm chickens are treated inhumanely for our ability to have quicker access to them as a meal.
Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated rooms is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damaged, blindness, bacterial infections of bones, slipped vertebrae, paralysis, internal bleeding, anemia, slipped tendons, twisted lower legs and necks, respiratory diseases, and weakened immune systems are frequent and long-standing problems on factory farms. The chickens being raised in a factory farm that we eat are treated this way and because of that we are on the verge of pandemic.
A pandemic is a very severe flu that can go worldwide and can kill a lot of people in a short period of time and spreads from animals to people. Health authorities today fear precisely such an event. Many insist that a pandemic based on the H5N1 virus strain is inevitable, and the question is really one of when it will strike and, most important, just how severe it will be. The 1918