Reply #64: Influenza and industrial meat production. The virus is the least of it

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It's very simple. Put a shit load of chickens in a tight space and you're asking for trouble. Asian farmers used to grow lot's of local produce. Now they are pretty much factory farms raising meat for export. Influenza isn't the problem, it's man's insatiable appetite for foods that are wrecking havoc on the environment and breeding super diseases that are growing increasingly resistant to antibiotic and antiviral drugs that our meat supply is swimming in. Think about that next time you wolf down a load of deep fried chicken tenders.

The fact remains that as devastating as the next pandemic could be, it's short term problem. Meanwhile, the shit we shovel into our mouths is killing us slowly and destroying our environment. If you choose to eat meat, that's your decision, but consider that hunk of carcinogenic red meat to be nothing more than a big old slab of SUV on a plate.