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H5N1 bird flu and how we're risking another global pandemic
NiHaoMike:
https://www.reddit.com/r/H5N1_AvianFlu/comments/1cfdykj/opinion_this_may_be_our_last_chance_to_halt_bird/
--- Quote ---Spillovers from animals to humans are common, yet pandemics are rare because they require a chain of unlucky events to happen one after the other. But pandemics are a numbers game, and a widespread animal outbreak like this raises the risks. When dangerous novel pathogens emerge among humans, there is only a small window of time in which to stop them before they spiral out of control. Neither our animal farming practices nor our public health tools seem up to the task.
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It's inevitable that factory farming is going to cause another pandemic. If not H5N1, it will be something else later. It adds to the many other health problems related to factory farming as justification to phase it out and replace it with sustainable farming.
Zero999:
It's true there will be another pandemic and nothing has been learned from the one just gone, but isn't this a bit too off-topic?
magic:
Nice reddit drama thread.
You forgot to add that you don't intend to bash the US because China uses industrial farming too and mention something about chipageddon to make it electronics-related ;)
ConKbot:
Oh no, even chickens bad now, the only solution to save humanity is to switch to industrially produced protein supplement brick meals! Totally not because it's very very profitable for us to turn any garbage protein, fat, and carb source into kibble for humans.
themadhippy:
--- Quote ---it will be something else later. It adds to the many other health problems related to factory farming as justification to phase it out and replace it with sustainable farming.
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And then mother nature will find another novel way of trying to keep the population of the most destructive species on the planet under control
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