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Article Excerpt
We know that indiscriminate feeding of antibiotics to livestock has led to higher rates of human infection by antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But how might factory-farming practices increase the threat from the influenza virus?
Michael Greger, M.D., director of public health and animal agriculture for The Humane Society of the United States, listed on the Society's website some of the reasons that "Factory farms can be considered viral breeding grounds." Quoting Dr. Greger, they are: (1)
* The sheer number of confined animals: With so many animals--stressed, deprived and suffering from poor welfare--overcrowded in today's factory farms, a pathogen can run rampant and mutate among so many confined "hosts." As Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Professor Ellen Silbergeld put it: "Instead of a virus only having one spin of the roulette wheel, it has thousands and thousands of spins, for no extra cost. It drives the evolution of new diseases."...
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