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"How Bureaucratic Infighting, Dairy Industry Lobbying Have Worsened H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak (Part 2)"

Another article detailing the "business supremacy" status quo in the US even at the risk of a pandemic. The article also highlights the fact that the USDA is a state within a state, it's Big Ag's State. There are so many conflicts of interest there, and it's important to understand what they are to know who is going to be harmed aside from the cows and chickens.

As with other crises, the "bad times" help to show who's been foolish and unwise. It's when the debt for ignorance and selfishness gets paid.

Eventually, even the overly protected animal pharmers will suffer as the diseases rip through their "living stocks" and various commerce barriers are raised to isolate the damage from others.

Much like the potable water crises (also tied to Big Ag), societies will have to choose between saving access to a necessity for all OR saving capital owners and related jobs.

So how many will die this time on the animal-blood soaked altar to business?

For those who don't know yet, go look up how big the wild animal farming sector has been and is in China.

I don't think that "One Health" is going to cut it.

https://www.acsh.org/news/2024/11/19/how-bureaucratic-infighting-dairy-industry-lobbying-have-worsened-h5n1-bird-flu

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How Bureaucratic Infighting, Dairy Industry Lobbying Have Worsened H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak (Part 2)

There is an inherent conflict of interest – and the potential for injury to public health – when a federal department both regulates and promotes an industry. Nowhere is this more evident than at USDA.

American Council on Science and Health
Nov 20, 2024 at 8:28amWeb
Show threadVeganPizza69 ⓋⒶNov 20, 2024

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In early 2023, as news of H5N1 avian influenza ("bird flu") spreading among dairy cows reached the White House, the stage was set for a high-stakes conflict between two government agencies. Rear Admiral Paul Friedrichs, head of the White House's Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR), immediately set her sights on curbing the virus's spread.

The Department of Agriculture (USDA), led by Secretary Tom Vilsack, also took up the task — but with a different set of priorities. What unfolded was a stark clash of interests, revealing the tensions between safeguarding public health and protecting the powerful dairy industry.
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According to a former USDA official, dairy industry insiders were alarmed that White House staff were contacting them directly, bypassing the usual channels through the USDA. State veterinarians reported they were told to discontinue routine calls with the USDA's veterinary services. This exacerbated the communication rift between the White House and the USDA.
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The conflict of interest between the agricultural industry and public health is built into the structure of the USDA. It is analogous to the department's dual but also incompatible roles in overseeing organic agriculture. It is charged with both promoting organic farming and setting industry standards and permissible practices. In recent years, as it became increasingly apparent that organic farmers were financially hard-pressed to follow the standards they had helped draft, they appealed repeatedly to bureaucrats to loosen the rules, and the USDA often complied.
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