Go vegetarian to avoid bird flu

[Euphoric]

Scared about getting bird flu? Then the only really safe way to protect yourself is to go vegetarian, an animal rights group said on Tuesday.

Headlining a new Chinese and English language Web site (www.avianflu.cn) "Avian flu: it's your fault", the Asia Pacific branch of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) says it is drawing attention to unsavory factory farming practices.

The cramming together of thousands of chickens in buildings where the birds are never allowed outside and live in their own filth was an ideal breeding ground for disease, the group said in a statement.

"Avian flu is just one symptom of a very sick and cruel industry," it quoted PETA Asia-Pacific director Jason Baker as saying.

"With diseases running rampant in crowded, filthy factory farms and the significant health risks posed by the 'backyard'-type farms common in Asia, the safest thing to do with chicken flesh is to avoid it like the plague," he said.

Bird flu has killed about 100 people in Asia and the Middle East since 2003, including 11 people in China, and experts fear the virus could mutate and spread easily from human to human..

SOURCE (http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-03-28T132722Z_01_PEK161400_RTRUKOC_0_US-BIRDFLU-CHINA-VEGETARIAN.xml)

[Euphoric]

http://gamapserver.who.int/mapLibrary/Files/Maps/Global_H5N1inAnimalConfirmedCUMULATIVE_20060329.pn g

[Jimmicrackedcorn]

Hahahaha, whatever will those crackmonkeys tell us next, that milk causes cancer? Ahhhhhh funny ppl, with your funny opinions, and ure frilly knickers.

[LIP]

Well i can clearly say that is BULLLLLLSHIT!!!!!!!

If you know how to cook then you wont get bird flu. For a start, cooking properly would kill all germs, and its very unlikely you'd eat an infected bird.

Why vegatarian? Why not just lay off poultry...

[Tmar.aLL.DaYmar]

god people quit being so retarded. the risk here isnt that people will eat the infected chicken and die.

What scientists are fearing is that the disease becomes airborne. If this happens then over 1/3 of the worlds population is going to die.

[Fengzi]

god people quit being so retarded. the risk here isnt that people will eat the infected chicken and die.
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True, the flu virus isn't somehting like salmonella that will live in the chicken meat. Virus's typically can not live for long outside of a Living host organism. By the time the bird had been killed, cut up, and packaged the chances you'll get bird flu from it are pretty much 0%.

What I think Euphoric is getting at is not that you'll be safe from the flu if you don't eat meat. He means that if nobody ever ate meat, there would be no need for chicken farms and the conditions that would allow the virus to spread. Most likely he's right. But, he needs to convince a few billion people worldwide so we're probably all doomed despite Euphoric's valiant efforts.

[Euphoric]

Updated H5N1 oUTBREAK mAP
160+ Human Infections to date...possibility of 5 -200 Million Deaths (http://www.guardian.co.uk/birdflu/story/0,14207,1582197,00.html) (if/when it mutates)
Flu set to hit alaska,canada in a couple weeks (http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-bird14.html)


Avian influenza, or bird flu, threatens humanity with what could easily be the greatest public health crisis in recorded history. Experts warn the disease could kill one in eight human beings and cause a collapse of the world economy. Outbreaks of various strains of bird flu are regularly detected. Bird flu can be caught simply by eating undercooked meat or eggs, by eating undercooked food prepared on the same cutting board as infected meat or eggs or even by touching eggshells which are contaminated with the disease.

[Euphoric]

hmm i almost forgot about this thread its been so long. hmm, but here is an updated offical map..

any ways
ironicly i found this antiveggie site to be pretty cool. Vegan and Vegetarian Militants - Vegetarians are Evil (http://www.vegansareevil.com/killers.html)