Did Factory Farmings Create Avian Flu?
One of the big excuses used by the USDA and states to argue for NAIS is bird flu, also known as Avian Influenza (H5N1) or Avian Flu and Exotic New Castle Disease. I have been receiving a lot of email from people about several new reports that Factory Farming is what is behind bird flu. “The report says the deadly H5N1 virus developed inside intensive poultry units in Asia and has proliferated through exports of live birds and the use of chicken droppings as fertilizer. Its publication by Grain, an agricultural pressure group, follows an announcement that the virus has been found in a turkey farm in eastern France. Though the farm was close to where two infected wild ducks were found, all its 11,000 turkeys were kept indoors with no contact with wild birds.” -The Independent of the UK I readily believe that factory farms have a harder time with bird flu because they have crowded conditions where they maintain weak mono-genetic cultures. All the individuals in the flock are nearly identi
