Humanities Heinous/Bizarre War On Birds!

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Hi all,

 

I thought you might be interested in this article. I

was thinking the very same thing when I was watching

MSNBC the other night and they showed these men all

decked out in nuclear waste-type outfits casually

stuffing live birds into garbage bags. The commentator

did not make one mention of how tragic this bird flu

epidemic was for the birds.

 

Something has GOT to change.

 

Jennifer

 

The price of the crime

 

 

 

We read it in the newspapers; we hear it on the radio

every day, every hour. Hundreds of thousands--nay,

millions--of chickens, geese, ducks and turkeys are

being pitilessly exterminated all over the world.

 

 

 

We see them on television running for their lives,

desperately flapping their wings; we hear their cries

of terror as they are brutally grasped by men in masks

and overalls. They are piled on top of each other in

containers to be gassed, burned alive, or thrown into

pits and buried alive.

 

 

 

And we accept it. There is no outcry, no protest, no

scream of indignation. Even the World Federation for

the Protection of Animals (WFPA) is keeping quiet.

Nobody DARES to accuse the administrations who are

responsible for this...to speak up and object that

this is not a way to treat sensitive, living beings.

No one DARES to protest that this is a crime

conferring a heavy collective guilt for which we

unfailingly will have to pay.

 

 

 

The price may be the loss of our migratory birds,

along with devastating and unimaginable consequences

for the environment--and for our own survival.

 

 

 

" Migratory birds with their potential to spread avian

flu " have suddenly become the mortal enemies of man.

�Killerenten��� � killer ducks � is the

name given by a popular Swiss newspaper to the

innocent wild ducks and geese flying into our lands at

this time to pass the winter on our lakes.

 

 

 

And in certain eastern European countries we can

already see hoards of humans roaming about destroying

bird nests in panic-stricken hysteria over some

hypothetic virus. In blind and furious determination,

they are demolishing and burning down nesting areas

and barricading all openings to cow sheds with netting

and meshing to stop swallows from building their nests

under the roofs and beams � a clear death sentence

for that already heavily- threatened species.

 

 

 

What in heaven���s name has yet to happen before

we recognize in our unrestrained consumption of meat

and our abject and highly dangerous methods of factory

farming the very source of our misery? How much more

hardship, suffering, and catastrophe still need to

occur before we understand that the vile and stupid

maxim of �mankind before all else��� is

pitching us headlong toward utter ruination?

 

 

 

October 2005

 

 

Franz Weber Foundation

1820 Montreux

Switzerland

T���l. +41 (0) 21 964 42 84

Fax +41 (0) 21 964 57 36

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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