Bird Flu, Explained
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- Back in 2014, “bird flu” was flooding headlines. And well this year, it’s happening again. @ryuji_chua explains what you need to know.
Just like humans and other animals, birds sometimes get sick. And sometimes, they have their own pandemics. That’s what that was. Birds everywhere got infected with the H5N1 virus, or bird flu, millions of whom were birds in factory farms like chickens, ducks, and turkeys.
In fact, because factory farms cram so many animals tightly together in filthy conditions, they’re actually ideal environments for viruses like bird flu to break out. And so this year, unsurprisingly to experts, bird flu is back.
Since January of 2022, the USDA estimates that over 47 million birds have been infected with it, just in the US. For perspective, that’s like the entire human population of Spain.
Whenever this happens, the important thing to do is to contain the spread of the virus-so it doesn’t infect every other bird on the planet or start the next human pandemic.
And the way that humans do this is that as soon as one bird on a farm tests positive, they take the entire flock they came from, and kill all of them. And this has just been an animal welfare disaster.
According to a report by the @AnimalWelfareInstitute based on @UsdaGov data, the 3 main ways we’ve been doing this so far are suffocating the birds by filling barns with CO2, choking the birds by filling barns with foam and this thing called “VSD”.
Now of those 3 methods, VSD is the cheapest and therefore also the most common, by far. But it’s also the one that causes the birds the most suffering. It stands for “ventilation shutdown” and it refers to the process of shutting down the ventilation in a barn, followed by turning up the heat, gas, or steam. This causes the barn’s temperature to skyrocket, essentially turning it into a giant oven, and the birds die by suffocating or overheating, often after suffering for hours.
In fact, @AnimalOutlook recently obtained public records from experiments that were testing VSD on chickens, and this is what those experiments looked like.
One worker who helped do this to over 5 million birds called this cooking the animals alive, and due to the extreme suffering this causes the animals, vets have called this the most inhumane method available.
So, if bird flu keeps spreading, will it cause the next human pandemic? Well historically, the bird flu virus hasn’t been very good at infecting humans. And since 2003, only 865 humans have been infected. However, over half those cases were fatal, and there’s no guarantee that things won’t change. Viruses mutate all the time, and it wouldn’t be all that surprising if one day bird flu became a big problem for us as well.
To summarize, humans have crammed animals in conditions that not only cause them extreme suffering, but also create ideal environments for diseases to break out. Then, when diseases do break out, which by the way, causes them to suffer just like when we get sick, our solution is to kill them by using methods that cause them even more extreme suffering.
And while the animal agriculture industry is responsible for this, so are consumers who endorse this cruelty by buying the eggs, chicken wings and other animal products that these animals are made to suffer for.
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Remember at the beginning of the pandemic when supply lines slowed and farmers did this to their pigs because they couldn't get them to the slaughter house and they didn't want to waste money feeding them longer than they had to? This is shameful.
Yes, we reported on this in early 2020. Here’s the story if you’d like to read it: sentientmedia.org/farmed-animals-culled-en-mass-as-covid-19-outbreaks-halt-meat-and-dairy-production/
Capitalism only seeks profit. The animals are only and instrument to make profit. And the more profit you make the more respect you get. And you are considered a great person and entrepreneur 😂
The food industry is so cruel to kill animals like this.
This is horrific I can’t watch !! Animals feel pain !!
I’m gonna get chickens and let them live happy lives in my garden as soon as I can and I’ll stop buying eggs from shops
I did two years ago I got 6 and 1 turned out to be a rooster, we are planning to increase the flock since we have a rooster, it’s a lot of work to keep them happy but the eggs our girls produce is worth it. The rooster is very protective of his girls, he beat up a cat the other day but get along fine with our dog.
Have you heard of Teenage Mutant Garden Chicken?
Farms never clean their floor where chickens are, imagine living with your poop and the poop of your friends, in the heat of summer, and tight with other chickens smelling that shet.
its hard to not be cynical. This could be by design to kill off farming and agriculture. Don't feel guilty for eating food.
Chiro chirp chirp chirp ... Oops! I mean, yes that's right. Chirp chirp ... Oh no, I'm beginning to get bird flu symptoms
Such an excellent, informative video. So tragic, but important that more people know
Thanks for taking the time to watch. The more people we can educate, the more we can change the conversation around animal agriculture and create sustainable change.
this is not a very true version
I volunteer with wildlife, and bird flu has just been getting worse/going on longer than expected. I'm honestly terrified with how little news there's been, the pandemic has been rough, and been spreading to some people occasionally. Bird flu is a nightmare, especially since wildlife centers are still trying to recover from the lockdowns. We're fucked
As a former federal Ag Inspector whose since stopped consuming animal products I cannot underestimate the grave risk we pose humanity by paying for animal farming to continue.
I worked in the 2014 pandemic in Ontario Canada. The fear was evident among all of us. The stories of massive culling that took place the birds dying in front of them all lead to that fear. This was just a few years off the heels of the swine flu in 2009.
To me this is the biggest risk we face as a species and its a simple switch.
In 2008 Dr. Gregor sounded the alarm (his video is on YT highly suggest you watch it)as many others. I’m not even including antibiotic resistance and the pathogens we kill (or try to kill) by cooking aka food poisoning. If we have pandemics happening in countries with strict biosecurity measures like Canada US etc.. what will happen in those who do not have that.
The best thing we can do is move away from farming animals. We just witnessed an unprecedented global pandemic with all the measures that took place. If you’re reading this imagine this jumps from human to human we could see something we’ve never seen before. Please reconsider and move away from this, ask others to do the same for our sake and our futures.
Bless you for being a "former" inspector. I hope that your knowledge of the Ag biz helps to wake people up. Thank you so much for all you do.
We as a species will deserve what we get for the way we have treated animal life on this planet. It's called Karma!
Found this on tik tok earlier today, and now I'm seriously considering donating to you guys monthly or smth. Good job tho, honestly.
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Well what is the R.S.P.C.A FOR THEN? If they don’t stop this
Great video, I'm surprised yall don't have more subscribers
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You deserve more subscribers, very high quality informative video. Keep it up
Our entire planet is going to die because of this nightmare.
No one cares. We are done living in fear. Never again
That is so inhumane
Tweet tweet tweet chirp chirp ... Oh no!!! I'm beginning to speak bird language! Chirp chirp chirp chirp ... Nooo!!!
Sometimes you have to spend money to reduce suffering of animals and protect human populations. If we paused for one month an our donations to the Ukraine we could snuff out this potential pandemic without cooking the birds alive
Thank you. Shared.
All you need to know but nothing about flu prevention
your comments and descriptions are not that accurate
I’ve pondered the catastrophe that could happen if an avian and human flu recombinant formed. But lately I’ve been more worried about a MERS and SARS-Cov2 hybrid. Especially on the heels of the World Cup where several MERS infections took place. Also there’s way more Covid than flu cases in the world. That makes a devastating coronavirus recombinant much more likely to happen.
But these viruses are man made snd patented along with the “cure” so don’t think that these things happen by coincidence.
Covid 19 was 99.76% survivable.
An avian flu recombinant would have to happen via swine flu, i.e the virus infects a pig with swine flu, who then passed it to humans. Avian influenza, by its nature, doesn't spread easily at all in humans despite (or perhaps because of) its high mortality rate compared to its high viral load.
But if it recombined with swine flu? Its mortality rate would drop a bit, but its viral load would drop drastically - meaning it would take much fewer exposure to get sick, and this make it much easier to spread.
Given how humanity handled the previous pandemic, I'd say we're screwed.
From the CDC:
Avian influenza or bird flu refers to the disease caused by infection with avian (bird) influenza (flu) Type A viruses. These viruses naturally spread among wild aquatic birds worldwide and can infect domestic poultry and other bird and animal species. Bird flu viruses do not normally infect humans. However, sporadic human infections with bird flu viruses have occurred.
This is why I am vegan.
I just seen this guy on Vegan 2022 I never heard of him but
I like you very much thank you for what you do and all you do ♥️
its starting.
Omg who cares how the chickens die 🙄 we're not playing around here.
I am very sad I wish I could be vegan but is not easy. The way they treat the animals are disgusting terrible
Omg! Those poor birds!
Birdemic 🦅
I've got bird flu now ffs
I bet this one is made up too. Don’t trust it. Remember what the wef is trying to do…and we fall for these things as if we are blinded by I don’t know what but these people are evil evil to the core.
amazing video, rip birdies
You do realize in the last 300 years there has only been 9 pandemics...right? So we good for a while yet 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂