PETA Asia-Pacific's Biohazard Team to the Rescue

Written by PETA

Posted 05-22-2009

The swine flu epidemic has hit Asia—and so has PETA Asia-Pacific's intrepid team of biohazard-suited protesters. They gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Manila to point out the fact that factory farms are breeding grounds for deadly diseases such as swine flu and avian flu.

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Written by Lianne Turner

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Recent Comments

Blu commented:

May 23, 2009 9:36 AM

Mel A while back there was an outbreak of salmonella in my region of the United States found in tomatoes. The farm that it originated from was blamed for toxic manure only later to find that it was caused by blood and feces that had not been properly contained from a nearby factory farm. As far as H1N1 is concerned the area where it is believed to have originated also has a factory farm where it has been found the blood and feces and rotting corpses in the "waste pit" have been leaking toxins into the area's natural water supplies due to broken pipes and overflowing of the waste pit itself. Going veg would mean less people eating meat less factory farms where it would be a possibility of things like this happening. Not to mention at least in my opinion that factory farms controlled genocide.
roxanne commented:

May 23, 2009 12:38 AM

Tamara Thanks!
mel commented:

May 22, 2009 10:56 PM

Since apparently my previous response was denied I will abbreviate my answer. Tamra my point is that it doesn't matter if an animal is in a pen or "free range" we have gotten viruses from the animals. Why? The answer is a simple the virus mutates. It's called adaptationsurvival instinct that's why animals have evolved over generations they adapt to survive. Neither of these you need any facts just a basic knowledge in science and biology. Plus if the virus were as dangerous as everyone touts it to be and please feel free to give me your reasoning how is it that there have been as few deaths as there have been? Fact and you can search on Google in the United States there have been only 9 deaths. That's out of about 7000 infected here. Even in Mexico the rate is less than a few hundred out of thousands of cases. Just for your edification I am openminded to the facts of life and science. What I disagree with is a group that uses this as a way to denounce eating meat. Viruses mutate people are going to eat meat those are facts of life that don't need documentation meaning you don't need to be an expert just pay attention to biology.
Brien Comerford commented:

May 22, 2009 8:50 PM

I think I'LL side with Pythagarus Empedocles Da Vinci John Wesley Tolstoy Albert Schweitzer Mahatma Gandhi Cesar Chavez and Paul McCartney over Mel !
Sarah commented:

May 22, 2009 7:11 PM

Since NOT 1 pig has been found with this Swine flu and it would be impossible for them to carry swine human and avian flu there not zoonotic which means the HUMAN flu could NOT possibly be spread to Swine or any other animal. Plus you CANOT! get h1n1 from eatting meat.. this swine flu is NO more deadly then regular flu.. 36000 people die of the FLU every year around 200 around the world have died of this swine flu Mel is right you people REALLY need to GET INFORMED and stop making WILD accuastions..
Mel commented:

May 22, 2009 5:36 PM

Tamra my point is that it does NOT matter where an animal is living viruses mutate and can cause illnesses in all living beings. That is a SIMPLE BIOLOGY FACT viruses humans and animals adapt to survive in any condition which would include free range or more "humane" ways. You do NOT need to have "data" or be an expert to know this. You also ignored the issue of soil which also is fertilized with these animal droppings and other stuff. Feces are the worst carrier of diseases one reason you can be poisoned by ecoli it's in excrement. Free range factory farm doesn't matter the excrement does end up in the soil in factory farms cases some of it dries up and is carried over the winds and lands in soil. And scientists and those in medicine said it was unnecessary to slaughter pigs because the virus did NOT come from pigs. Let's be real too on the virus if it were as serious as people say it is why aren't MORE people dying daily? Can you answer that? No and why? there are other factors to consider to those who died such as diet a possible weakened immune system age the works. But PETA is trying to make the claim it's due to factory farms. We simply do not know and no point in jumping to conclusions. I'm no expert of course but I have lived in what would be seen as cattletowns places that are overcrowded with cattle. I do not believe many who cry foul here have ever really experienced what I have. Not ONCE did I come down with any animal disease nor did anyone living staying or passing through there. PETA is jumping to conclusions and sensationalizing this so they can get publicity out of it when in fact they don't know either.
Tamra commented:

May 22, 2009 5:06 PM

So since you are the EXPERT Mel you can comment and provide us all with the data needed to conclude that factory farming does not lend to an environment suitable for new viruses such as the "H1N1". You have the data that this could have occurred on a free range farm with say 10 pigs in more sanitary conditions? Please feel free to post that info here. Because while you are spewing your "weaker than the common flu a lot of people didn't even know they had caught it" nonsense another person in our state just died from it. Stay openminded. Ask questions and demand answers!
Mel commented:

May 22, 2009 4:06 PM

OK for starters you are ignorant. The flu itself is a strain from three sources swine avian and human. It also is weaker than the common flu a lot of people didn't even know they had caught it. Plus only a group as naive as this would go out to a place that has the bug to protest. Third it does NOT matter if it's a factory farm or if they were range animals can and do have diseases that will pass down to humans. It's called gene mutation a survival instinct in all living things. Even becoming a vegetarian will not help you avoid these illnesses. Soil is usually fertilized with manure if organically and there have been some diseases that survive in the animal's excrement. That gets into the veggies and into you even if washed sometimes. PETA really needs to quit going to these extremes if anyone becomes ill from this BTW hazmats are good protection however as we saw with Chernobyl not a total protector it will be on PETA's hands not the factories.

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