"The Committee
recognized that the H1N1 pandemic is unstoppable" - Dr.
Marie-Paule Kieny - World Health Organization
According to the
World Health Organization,the 2009 swine flu pandemic is the fastest
ever spreading pandemic in history,with millions today likely to be
infected.
It developed in pigs, mutated,and now it propagates
among humans.
Swine flu is far more prevalent in areas with
intensive pig production.
Canadian agencies have seen a 99 percent correlation between
the number of pig factory farms and the total number of Human swine flu cases,
per province.
Dr. Michael
Greger, M.D. Direct of Public health and Animal
Agriculture;Humane Society of the U.S. VEGAN: "When we cram tens of
thousands of animals into these cramped filthy football field size sheds
to lie snout to snout atop their own waste,it's just a breeding ground
for disease."
The rate of hospitalization and fatality is also
higher.
In the Province of Manitoba, where there are 2.4 times as
many pigs as humans, residents are 3 times likely to be hospitalized
and 3.7 times as likely to die from the swine flu than the Canadian
average.
Resident La Gloria,
Mexico (town where swine flu originated): The [pig] farms
affect us a lot. My brother got sick and where taken to the hospital. They
told us it was a virus from the farms.
Pig and other animal
factory farms also create antibiotic resistant bacteria. In the
US,Where 70% of all
antibiotics are fed to farm animals, bacterial infections claim 18,000 human lives
each year, which is more than all the AIDS
fatalities in the country.
SAVE YOUR LIFE. BE VEG. GO GREEN.
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