Disease Risk Reduced By Modern Livestock Housing
The head of the Animal Agriculture Alliance (AAA) has criticized animal activist groups for using the H1N1 virus in an attempt to advance the anti-animal agriculture agenda. AAA Executive Vice President Kay Johnson Smith said while activists are blaming modern livestock systems, the disease has not been found in a U.S. animal.
Smith explained modern housing protects food animals from predators, disease and weather stress. She said the structures are clean and scientifically designed to meet the animal’s specific needs, including temperature and light.
“These facilities are better for controlling and reducing diseases than allowing animals to have uncontrolled interactions with wild animals and other potential disease vectors,” said Smith.
She said attempting to connect modern animal production to the current flu outbreak is “a huge stretch and is completely irresponsible.” Link
It wouldn’t matter what type of housing or non-housing system we were using when H1N1 came on to the scene. The anti-animal agriculture groups want to abolish our industry. They have learned that fear is the best way to force their agenda on our society since it leads to irrational reasoning. So no matter what crisis they create or comes along on its own, they will find a way to connect it to modern animal production.
Showing posts with label pandemic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pandemic. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
WHO Finally Changes Name of Flu
W.H.O. Gives Virus a Name That’s More Scientific and Less Loaded
By DENISE GRADY
Published: April 30, 2009
On Wednesday, the new disease affecting thousands of people in Mexico and more than 100 in the United States and other countries was called swine influenza. By Thursday, the “S word” had been banned: A sentence in a box at the very top of the home page of the World Health Organization said, “From today, W.H.O. will refer to the new influenza virus as influenza A(H1N1).”
At the organization’s news conference in Geneva on Thursday, its deputy director general, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, dutifully referred to the virus as “H1N1,” slipping only once. Just two days earlier, Dr. Fukuda had declared that the new virus was a swine influenza virus and that the organization had no plans to call it anything other than what it was.
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have also started to shun the word “swine,” and a hapless reporter who used it during a radio interview was roundly scolded by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Read More
It’s refreshing to see that public health officials finally realized that they were doing more harm to the public because of the street name used for this virus than the virus itself. I would contend that the word ‘pandemic’ has caused less panic around the world than the term ’swine flu’. Egypt needlessly seized and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of healthy hogs from farmers in an attempt to ward of this flu that hasn’t made a single hog sick. They wouldn’t have done this if officials had correctly name this virus in the first place.
By DENISE GRADY
Published: April 30, 2009
On Wednesday, the new disease affecting thousands of people in Mexico and more than 100 in the United States and other countries was called swine influenza. By Thursday, the “S word” had been banned: A sentence in a box at the very top of the home page of the World Health Organization said, “From today, W.H.O. will refer to the new influenza virus as influenza A(H1N1).”
At the organization’s news conference in Geneva on Thursday, its deputy director general, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, dutifully referred to the virus as “H1N1,” slipping only once. Just two days earlier, Dr. Fukuda had declared that the new virus was a swine influenza virus and that the organization had no plans to call it anything other than what it was.
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have also started to shun the word “swine,” and a hapless reporter who used it during a radio interview was roundly scolded by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Read More
It’s refreshing to see that public health officials finally realized that they were doing more harm to the public because of the street name used for this virus than the virus itself. I would contend that the word ‘pandemic’ has caused less panic around the world than the term ’swine flu’. Egypt needlessly seized and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of healthy hogs from farmers in an attempt to ward of this flu that hasn’t made a single hog sick. They wouldn’t have done this if officials had correctly name this virus in the first place.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Swine Flu Named Wrong
World animal health body says swine flu wrong name
Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:23pm IST
PARIS (Reuters) - The flu virus spreading around the world should not be called "swine flu" as it also contains avian and human components and no pig was found ill with the disease so far, the World Animal Health body said on Monday.
A more logical name for it would be "North-American influenza," a name based on its geographic origin just like the Spanish influenza, another human flu pandemic with animal origin that killed more than 50 million people in 1918-1919.
"The virus has not been isolated in animals to date. Therefore it is not justified to name this disease swine influenza," the Paris-based organization said in a statement. Read More
Not only can you not get the flu from eating pork, but this flu outbreak that we are dealing with really has nothing to do with swine. It's important for people involved with agriculture and particularly livestock to be aware of information like this. Take any opportunities to share this with our consumers.
Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:23pm IST
PARIS (Reuters) - The flu virus spreading around the world should not be called "swine flu" as it also contains avian and human components and no pig was found ill with the disease so far, the World Animal Health body said on Monday.
A more logical name for it would be "North-American influenza," a name based on its geographic origin just like the Spanish influenza, another human flu pandemic with animal origin that killed more than 50 million people in 1918-1919.
"The virus has not been isolated in animals to date. Therefore it is not justified to name this disease swine influenza," the Paris-based organization said in a statement. Read More
Not only can you not get the flu from eating pork, but this flu outbreak that we are dealing with really has nothing to do with swine. It's important for people involved with agriculture and particularly livestock to be aware of information like this. Take any opportunities to share this with our consumers.
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