 As the progress of the Swine Flu progresses, new questions are being raised about the origin of the bug and whether the United States farming methods are at fault. Not being a scientist, I can only speculate based on evidence, observation and data. So let me see whether there is any credibility in that statement. For years we have to pump massive antibiotics into the animals we are raising to eat. We do this so that they do not get as sick given their overcrowded conditions that produces dangerous diseases that kill the very product a profit is sought from. The products (animals) develop a resistance - or rather the diseases that we gave them antibiotics for in the first place are now immune to the antibiotics, the same spectrum that we dumb-ass humans use when we get sick. Antibiotics kill "biotics" or bacteria. Not viruses. You cannot take an antibiotic for the flu or a virus because it does nothing to stop the virus. What it does do is allow your body (and your body's germs) to develop a resistance to the antibiotic so that when you really need it the antibiotic doesn't work. So what happens if this virus has come from our food production method? Johann Hari thinks so... "To understand how this happens, you have to compare two farms. My grandparents had a pig farm in the Swiss mountains, with around twenty swine at any one time. What happened there if, in the bowels of one of their pigs, a virus mutated and took on a deadlier form?" Read his ARTICLE "Our Hunger For Cheap Meat Has Created Swine Flu" HERE. or Swine Flu May Have Evolved At US Hog Farms Is it time we rethink our excesses before we are minimalized? MisterWriter |
Friday, May 1, 2009
DID WE CREATE THE SWINE FLU AND ARE WE CREATING THE MONSTER VIRUS THAT WIL ULTIMATELY KILL US?
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Diseases can wipe out a continent as happened in the 1492-1600's here in the Americas. The reason being that the people had never been exposed to such strains. In our world wide interactions we are exposed to more and more diseases and the progression of immunization via natural selection seems to be in our favor judging from the population explosion in the last 60 years. So I am not quite ready to write off the human race, we seem to be ahead of the curve.
I think we are the curve!
Science can control mother nature, but it has never won in the long run. We know a great earthquake is going to hit the bay area, and there is only so much we can do. The same is true for diseases. People will die. People have always died.
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