{"article":{"id":148901,"heading":"Global Poultry Industry is the Root of the Bird Flu Crisis","author":"brian","created":"2006-03-04 01:57:00","modified":"2006-03-04 01:57:00","last_modified":"Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:57:00","article":"

Global Poultry Industry is the Root of the Bird Flu Crisis



March 2, 2006

GlobalResearch.ca

A new and extremely important report has come out today from GRAIN, about the mistaken policy analysis and debate surrounding the current Bird Flu crisis.

While panic in the media and at government levels is focused on the threat from migratory birds and small-scale free-range poultry operations, the real reason for the development and spread of the disease has been quietly ignored.

The GRAIN report shows that emergence of bird flu follows the global poultry industry's movements - and NOT migratory bird movements. The large-scale, confined, and frankly disgusting, factory farming conditions that characterise the global poultry industry are likely to be the real cause of the mutation of bird flu into its deadly form. The widespread movements of the industry's chickens and hatching eggs, are likely to be the cause of its spread.

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