%7 percent of farm workers show signs of infection?! Holy shit batman that’s bad.
I don’t read enough into this, but how could someone tell if their animals got it? Also, how worried should normal people be that aren’t trucking their animals around massive farms and such?
All I’ve seen is that they could be quieter or lay down more often, but my chickens just free roam. They could come into contact with wild birds that migrate, but I wouldn’t know about it more than likely.
Narrator: They did not end the denial about bird flu
Literally millions of people died from COVID and we haven’t put a dent in its denial.
Covid was a summoning of this new era of normalized violence disguised as a pandemic.
The genocide of Palestinians is another summoning for an era of mass scale violence and honestly it scares the shit out of me.
Most older people don’t get it, but in my lifetime I have seen the value of human lives drop through the floor as centrists smile along and nod their heads to the thinly disguised rhetoric of fascism and that can really only lead one very ugly place.
The future will be full of death on a mass scale, the rich made sure of that.
I ultimately agree that we need to stop using industrialized meat production to get our proteins and must switch to non-animal based proteins not only to stem the rise of pathogens but to stabilize the climate.
I just do not see it happening in time, AT ALL, to address the bird flu issue right now. The author is saying bird flu is a huge threat, we need to stop subsidizing the meat industry and switch to non-animal proteins. They’re not wrong, but that is not going to happen quickly enough to stem bird flu, come on
Oh, they have no way to stop it with incremental regulations. Incredible monitoring would be practical for them, but the inescapable part of biosecurity for animal raising is that the animals are killed (before they’re killed at slaughter). It becomes a regular and constant loss. Without monitoring, and with regular bailouts, what you end up is a system that breeds massive numbers of soon-to-be-killed animals in order to fill up holes in the ground with their corpses. The obvious fact that everyone is shying away from is that the sector needs to be shrunk or closed down, much like the wild animal farms in China (see: SARS-CoV-2).
look I dont think the author is wrong, I just dont think americans will give up beef as they like to believe they still live in the frontier
It’s not really an option. The real question is if people will be fine with promoting famine (could be far away) instead of eating rice and beans.
Here’s an example from about a century ago: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/troy-vettese-do-not-let-them-eat-meat/
Sounds a lot like the conservatives who flipped from denying climate science to saying it’s too late to do anything about global warming.
No, the urgency of the situation calls for all of us to do our part now. In this case even if it ends up not being enough, every effort will 1) set the stage for preventing future pandemics, and 2) give every person who makes the switch their own best chance of survival.
