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ReferenceRe: Avian flu

Nigel Cannings 27 January 2004 20:35

Originally from: coleen
                        
Hi Hilary,

My theory is that the next big 'bang' will come from us. We will wipe ourselves out, through our greed and self preservation that we exploit regardless of who and what else suffers.

I think that the scares we have seen, BSE, FMD, SARS, AVIAN FLU to name a few, are warnings that we cannot go on the way we are.

If we look outside animal diseases we are incredibly fortunate that aids does not spread in the way that SARS does. Aids is wiping out huge parts of Africa and other Third World Countries. No vaccine and look how long Aids has been with us. How long before we face something like this that is as serious as aids, and spreads like SARS.

No matter what the World Heath Organisation does and says, no matter what restrictions our own DEFRA put into place, you cannot stop people from travelling and spreading whatever it might be. We should all be concerned – but I guess most are busy looking after number one, or to ignorant to even realise what is going on. Did we not say these very same things throughout fmd...

I feel sick at the sight of all those poor birds being bound in sacks and buried millions and millions of them. To hell with Thailand's economy. Get the welfare right, and this would never have happened, or at least it could have been contained.

Keep saying it Hilary. I am with you all the way. If man chooses to make his living from animals, then the least he can do is show them respect and compassion. Neither of those cost anything – only human decency. I somehow think that got lost, along the way.

Coleen

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