Timely & provocative cite to online Bird Flu ..A Virus of Our Own Hatching

[Guest guest]

Greetings all, I am recommending at least skimming through this online book

which gives one an understanding of the many factors in our present global

society which can contribute to pandemics. My father was a " poultry doctor " and

always emphasized the importance of decontamination from one farmplace to

another, and need to avoid overcrowding of poultry, ( & other animals) to their

health AND OURS. I firmly believe the overcrowding, planting, GMO's, pesticides,

etc. as well as practices such as blood meal feeding to cattle, grazing them on

cornstalks from commercial fertilizers where the cattle's own instincts prevent

them from eating the stalks until they are forced to by hunger,(unlike old days

with organic manure fertilizer), and raising pigs in jungles, etc. ALL

reasonably and foreseeably contribute to pandemics of flus.

 

Give the book a read and see if we can't collectively inform and empower against

such practices as Dr. Greger details before it is too late. It may be that we

will, or won't, be strong and healthy enough to " miss " the results Mexico is

having with this latest Swine Flu, but I for one doesn't believe the answer is

in new programs of vaccination against it. I believe we need to get laws

against our inhumane treatment of all animals for our survival.

 

About the author, Dr.Greger: Michael Greger, M.D., is Director of Public Health

and Animal Agriculture at The Humane Society of the United States. All of the

proceeds Dr. Greger receives from his hard-copy books and speaking engagements

are donated to charity.

 

The author, Dr. Greger, is well respected as evidenced in the forward by

Professor Emeritus Kennedy Shortridge. " ..Shortridge is credited for having

first discovered the H5N1 virus in Asia. As chair of the Department of

Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong, Dr. Shortridge led the world's

first fight against the virus. For his pioneering work studying flu viruses,

which spans over three decades, he was awarded the highly prestigious Prince

Mahidol Award in Public Health, considered the " Nobel Prize of Asia. "

 

Give it a read!! Joyce Simmerman