Hi Chris. Yes, I know. This was something that I stated to the list over a year ago from my work out east. I guess the point I wanted to make is that a greater % of livestock will go down due to the, as you point out, "the problem is modern economic extremism". I cannot even think of the farming that was done 200 years ago as mono-culture due to the small sizes of the crops that were divided into plots and rotated constantly. Also free roaming livestock is certainly not what we have today nor the 2 or 5 animals per farm.
We have also taken so much of the natural terrain away from the wild (birds etc) that these animals have to come into the areas that could be contaminated in order to get feed (or a shelter) and can be infected and so carry that elsewhere. But, the main problem is still the way the extremely poor of the Asian countries live on their farms and raise their livestock. It is a cesspool of disease waiting to happen in any given year. Keep up the good fight. You are font of info. Darryl _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
