Row Eva An article from his highly recommended blog The Thing and The Cause
written from Buenos Aires.
This paper highlights the thin line separating the experiments with transgenic soybean and the probability of having a relationship with the Swine Flu.
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not prove that GM foods cause any genetic effect on inidviduo that feeds them, either animal or human. But neither proved otherwise. However, the chemical industry does not dare to genetically modified seeds for the plant to become resistant to antibiotics that are fed to humans against infection. That means there is a place for a "just in case." A "just in case we are not going to cause human beings to stop them antibiotics effects on infectious diseases." So much for the morale of the remaining companies of agrochemicals and genetically modified seeds resistant.
No one can answer the question or by other or not: Is soy that made the genetic change of influenza virus of the pig? The question is in the air and nobody dares to do it. Newspapers less. These protect the interests of big capital, including laboratories and include Monsanto, not to mention the renters of the field along the banks participating in its enormous business.
blame Will eating soy modified pigs flu virus? That we can not guarantee. What at least we can say is that the arguments in favor of genetic modification of plants, are being eclipsed.
was said that GM seeds require less fertilizer and poisons which would protect the environment, but soy is eaten alive and left fields barren. It said it could produce more food for mankind, but soy is for pigs, and in our country, as in other unregulated, is replacing other crops for human food because it is more profitable than others . Genetics are not fed the hungry but to the agrorentísticos capital income. It was reported that transgenic plants would ensure the ecosystem and the environment by preventing the clearing of forests as production would be effective without adding acreage. But the easy profitability of soybeans causes increasingly popular and cutting of forests is the main result, one of the factors in the spread of dengue.
Now the swine flu virus mutates and attacks humans. The main food of pigs is genetically engineered soy. Is not it time to suspect that GM food may turn out to be lethal to humans? No one can tell.
Assuming that it was not, also the damage done to man by the extraordinary success of GM crops and cheap food for the animal breeding is enormous. It seems strange that success can conspiring against humans, but not a lie. This has happened because big financial capital appeared, displacing many small traditional family farms that supported the business in the world.
This new availability of food for animals has attracted investment to the business of poultry, cattle and pigs, as well as the planting of transgenic plants used for animal feed. But to attract such capital had to mediate a production technique extensively and intensively, both for the planting of GM crops to raising poultry and livestock. We know the direct sowing of soybean, the annexation of large areas of leasing and the existence of an effective poison for the crop as is glyphosate. The technique of animal husbandry in contrast, replaces the multitude of separate space for each farm for larger spaces, but meager, given the concentration and overcrowding of millions of animals, overcrowding needed to make the business profitable.
long ago virologists observed the phenomenon of concentration of animals hacinante concern. Intensive farming system of southern China was classified for decades as the main vector of mutation Influenza: both the "drift" seasonal and episodic "exchange" genome.
The recent industrialization of livestock production granempresarial the world, has broken the monopoly of China's responsibility in the evolution of flu. The livestock sector has been transformed in recent decades into something more like the oil industry to the happy farm family who painted romantic books. Let
numbers. In 1965, one million U.S. farms were distributed 53 million pigs. An average of 53 pigs per farm. Today, 65 000 breeding facilities under intensive technique 65 million live pigs. An average of 1000 pigs at each facility. "That has meant moving from Cyclopean fashioned pens to metal roofing fecal hell, full of manure and sweltering heat, which is crowded with thousands of animals ready to share pathogens with lightning speed, with more than weakened immune systems.
In 2008, a commission convened by the Pew Research Center in the U.S., published a report on "industrial farm animal production, in denouncing the acute danger that" the continued circulation of virus (...) characteristic of large herds, flocks or herds, increase opportunities for novel viruses by episodes of mutation or recombination, which could generate viruses more efficient human to human transmission. "
The commission also warned about the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in pig factories, cheaper than for humans, was encouraging the rise of estafílocóquicas resistant infections, while the fecal discharges generated outbreaks of Escherichia coli and Pfiesteria (a protozoan that killed a billion fish in North Carolina estuaries and sickened dozens of fishermen). But the commission also spoke of a systematic obstruction of investigations by large companies, including threats suppress the financing of the researchers who cooperated with the commission.
is a highly globalized industry and political influence in each country. The poultry giant Charoen Pokphand in Bangkok failed to prevent the investigation of his responsibility for the spread of bird flu in Southeast Asia. Forensic epidemiology studies today the swine flu outbreak, it is probably going to headlong into the business of the pork industry.
rumor already in the Mexican press of a swine influenza epicenter located around a giant Smithfield subsidiary in the state of Veracruz. Smithfield Farms (pork and beef) and Tyson (chicken) are two big transnational conglomerates poultry and livestock living in Mexico.
But the most tragic of all this is faith in the WHO's pandemic strategy, which believes it can provide assistance to a pandemic in countries that can not ensure the quality of local public health in normal times. Since the first H5N1 deaths in 1997 in Hong Kong, WHO, with the support of most national health authorities, has promoted a strategy focused on the identification and isolation of a pandemic strain on your local radio outbreak followed by a mass administration of antiviral drugs and, if available, vaccines to the population.
A legion of skeptics have criticized this approach to counter viral indicating that microbes can now fly around the world much more rapidly than the WHO or local officials may come to react to the original outbreak. Outbreaks in the U.S. show that the virus is traveling faster and the traveling with the last official pandemic strain, the Hong Kong flu in 1968.
These experts have also noted the primitive, and often nonexistent, the monitoring of the interface between human and animal diseases. But the myth of a bold intervention, preemptive (and cheap) avian flu has been the excuse with which rich countries like the U.S. and the UK, justify investing in their own lines Maginot biological, rather than dramatically increase aid to overseas advanced epidemic fronts. They have taken this myth also gain international pharmaceutical corporations, facing a war against the demands of poorer countries engaged in public production of generic antivirals.
version of the WHO that is prepared for a pandemic surveillance but has not promoted or regulatory legislation, basic public health and global access to vital drugs, will now start testing dramatically by the influenza virus.
The alert system is doomed to fail, simply because they exist. Ni even in the U.S. and the European Union. Perhaps not surprisingly, that Mexico lacks capacity and political will to manage poultry and livestock diseases, but the situation is no better in the U.S., where surveillance is hampered by a patchwork of state jurisdictions and large cattle companies oppose health regulations with the same indifference with which they treat workers and animal husbandry. Similarly, a decade of warnings from scientists failed to ensure viral technology transfers to countries along the routes most likely pandemic. Mexico has world renowned health experts, but must send samples to a laboratory in Winnipeg for decoding the genome of the strain. This has lost a whole week.
But no less alert the authorities for Disease Control in Atlanta. According to the Washington Post, the CDC [Center for Disease Control] is not aware of the outbreak six days after Mexico imposed emergency measures. No excuses.
The paradox of this swine flu that had already been predicted with great accuracy. Six years ago, Science magazine published an article important to note that "after years of stability, swine influenza virus in the U.S. has been a rapid evolutionary leap." From
identification during the Great Depression, the H1N1 swine influenza had experienced only a slight change from its original genome. Then in 1998 a highly pathogenic strain began to decimate sows on a farm in North Carolina, and began to raise new and more virulent versions every year, including a variant of H1N1 that contained the internal genes of H3N2 (which causes the other influenza A that spreads among humans).
Science Researchers interviewed were concerned about the possibility that one of these hybrids could turn into a human flu virus, it is believed that the pandemics of 1957 and 1968 were caused by a mixture of human and avian genes forged within porcine organs, "and urged the creation of a formal system for swine influenza surveillance: the admonition that a Washington turned a deaf ear so willing to throw billions of dollars in the sewer of the fantasies of bioterrorism.
swine flu now threatening us, not by a random design of the stars, but as fact chained to highlight the crisis of capitalism that caused the downfall of the global business at the end of the Bush era, which together with the wheel Russian financial investments, contributed to the progressive deterioration of global public health, kidnapping charged by large transnational pharmaceutical drugs and produced vital planetary catastrophe industrialized livestock production and environmentally insane.
Bibliography:
http://www.greenfacts.org/es/omg/3-cultivos-modificados-geneticamente/6-animales-modificados-geneticamente.htm # 1P0
The monster knocks on our door, Mike Davis ( trad. Maria Julia Bertucci, Ediciones El Viejo Topo, Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2006)
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