Factory Farms Of Disease: How Industrial Chicken Production Is Breeding The Next Pandemic

“According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): “Avian influenza viruses are evolving into a large, diverse virus gene pool … A pathogen may turn into a hyper-virulent disease agent; in monocultures involving mass rearing of genetically identical animals that are selected for high feed conversion, an emerging hyper-virulent pathogen will rapidly spread within a flock or herd.”

Wild birds are routinely blamed by governments and industry for spreading avian flu along migratory routes, but evidence is mounting that intensive farms are potential “mixing pots” for new, deadly viruses.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/18/factory-farms-of-disease-how-industrial-chicken-production-is-breeding-the-next-pandemic?fbclid=IwAR26bEtQbMHdXFCHv_QyTQUEWvRDiVW3JMq-avOgmGn3bTq9dzRYB9kjSFA



At least eight types of bird flu, all of which can kill humans, are circulating around the world’s factory farms – and they could be worse than Covid-19

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/18/factory-..

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