Avian Flu Update

I listened to the program this morning, and am surprised to hear from the guests that there is no human to human transmission; it's just bird to bird. There are documented cases of human to human (a family of 8, 7 died), in or near Karo, Indonesia. This is considered a small cluster. There is another small cluster that is now being tested. It's in the same area, involving 7 people, and they are unrelated, which indicates that the virus may have mutated again, threatening a human pandemic. You can read these articles on: scienceblogs.com/effectmeasure and Bloomberg.com to name just 2. There are a number of science and respectible news sites on the web that are reporting these stories. There are also cases found whereby cats have been infected. The World Health Org. is reluctantly acknowledging that they fear human to human transmission. Thank you.

For the life of me, I can't figure out why in the name of heaven humans are putting their entire species at risk from zoonatic pandemics simply because they refuse to STOP EATING BIRDS!!! Animal agriculture IS the cause of SO many problems, human degenerative disease,(The China Study, Dr. T. Colin Campbell) environmental pollution, emerging threats from rBSE that can cause rCJD, SARS, Exotic Newcastle, H5N1. I would urge those in policy making roles to adopt a RISK REDUCTION thought process. Since there is NO requirement for chicken in the diet, and in fact, as is mentioned in the newest edition of Good Medicine, published by Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine (pcrm.org)it is full of fat, birds are fed arsenic for pigmentation, weight gain, and to reduce parasites, and when it is cooked, a carcinogenic material forms know as a heterocyclic amine, wouldn't it be WISE and practical to leave it off plates?????If humans are so smart, why are we consuming baby birds(45 days young at full growth due to genetics and pharmacueticals) at a rate of one million an hour, the root cause of ALL AVIAN VIRUSES, the poultry industry.
Please join Dr. Karen Davis at upc-online.org and help truly mitigate risk from animal diseases that may infect us, choose a vegan diet. All these professionals from Dartmouth Hitchcock and a state vet for "public health," are clueless as they look at crisis management, not reduction of risk. Stop breeding and eating birds and end this nightmare once and for all. It is insane to spend billions of tax dollars on vaccines that may be more harmful than the virus, welfare for the drug companies, and insane to be allowing birds to be bred, cross borders, and be ordered from many other states, as they are very spring. The more birds, the higher the risk. Animal agribusiness is cruel, violent and unsustainable. If "public health" were the concern, we would be urging the much needed shift to an organic plant based diet. Health care is disease maintenance, and public health means dealing with mass infections. THAT IS NOT prevention, it is crisis management.
Extreme as it sounds, the domestication of animals has only been a thorn in the side, foot, and heart of humanity for ten thousand years.
If you dare visit a factory poultry farm and slaughterhouse, you'd see a nightmare. These poor birds are NO different than puppies or kittens."Farmed" animals are a human creation. I understand why men like Schwietzer, Einstein, Plato, Plutarch, Pythagoras, and others knew that until humans stop harming ALL animals, we will never have health or peace.
End zoonatic diseases forever...goveg.com