The bird flu outbreak has led to the euthanization of 100,000 ducks while over 100 million chickens and turkeys have perished across the United States. Despite fewer than 70 human cases, scientists warn of a potential mutation that could lead to increased transmission among humans. The article argues that factory farming is the main contributor to such outbreaks due to inhumane practices that foster viral evolution. A growing public awareness and demand for regulation in corporate agriculture, highlighted by media scrutiny, is crucial to prevent future health crises.
Amid the pathogenic unpredictability, another fact remains clear: the main culprit here is factory farming. By cramming animals into facilities so crowded they often can't even sit down, industrial agriculture has assembled the perfect laboratory for novel viruses.
Over the past couple of decades, corporate agriculture has finally begun facing scrutiny for its cruel and unusual treatment of animals... documentaries such as Food, Inc, and books like Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals did much to expose the outrages being committed by the now-infamous conglomerates Monsanto and Tyson Foods.
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