VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶRemember how SARS-CoV-2 emerged out of China's wild animal farms and traditional markets, and how the government there failed to prevent it, stop it, and investigate it seriously? (Yes, the lableakers are still 🤡.)
Well, the US government is doing the same with the avian influenza strain which are emerging as a large outbreak across multiple species, and among the US bird and cow farming sector. This avian influenza virus has also infected a mysterious amount of workers so far, possibly dozens, and it's just one bad day away from getting adaptations to become a new pandemic in humans (such as by mixing with pig influenza or with seasonal influenza).
Here's a long article showing a bit of the governmental failure and how that's tied to the meat industry and the "state within a state" which is the USDA:
"Inside the Bungled Bird Flu Response, Where Profits Collide With Public Health"
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-the-bungled-bird-flu-response
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“The functional intent was, nobody was allowed to talk to anyone,” says a Midwestern veterinary specialist. “That’s when our phones started ringing. That’s when we started putting it all together. It became very clear: Everything was on the down low, and that really hampered the response from the very beginning.”
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While the meat industry is more "cool" about killing sick chickens, they abhor the idea of killing sick cows. It's a weirder instance of speciesism.
One Health? More like One Sickness. You know what it is.
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Inside the Bungled Bird Flu Response, Where Profits Collide With Public Health
When dairy cows in Texas began falling ill with H5N1, alarmed veterinarians expected a fierce response to contain an outbreak with pandemic-sparking potential. Then politics—and, critics say, a key agency’s mandate to protect dairy-industry revenues—intervened.