-------- Original Message -------- Subject: bIRD FLU UPDATE Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:35:40 +1100 From: Gerard Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I’ve been keeping an eye on the Turkey development. So far, I think it supports my hypothesis that rather than inflating this into a huge global bio terrorism incident, its primary purpose is to destroy the economies and lifestyles of peasant communities. Three people have died in Turkey (supposedly from flu) and as a result goons are running around Turkish peasant villages, jumping over people’s walls, going wherever they like to chase down chickens. I heard that some villagers are resisting and trying to hide their chickens and that tougher action by police is being threatened if they don’t co-operate. Of course, free range birds are far more likely to be healthy, but it seems to be free range, peasant, integrated poultry keeping which is being targeted everywhere, not intensive monoculture poultry which is where the real disease problems happen. I also heard one scientist speculating that the cause of the problem was raising poultry and fish together and that they need to be separated. Since the symbiosis of ducks, wetland farming and fish farming is one of the great three way interactions of traditional farmers in rice growing country, this would be a devastating blow against traditional farming in favour of mono culture. They hardly need to kill anyone to achieve this. The deaths of less than a dozen people (whether real or fabricated and whether due to bird flu or not) can be used to wipe out peasant agriculture across entire countries. If they do the odd cull in intensive farms just for show, it doesn’t destroy the industry, but integrated peasant farming can’t remain viable in the face of this assault. Search the archives for political-research at http://www.terazen.com/ Subscribe to the RSS feed for political-research at http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/rss Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
