AR-News: (Asia) Dangers of close proximity

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

BANGKOK - Intensive farming, with concentrations of animals living in close 
proximity to humans, has boosted the incidence of animal diseases affecting 
humans, such as the humans - you are quite likely to get some increased 
transmission, if not even generation, of deadly bird flu.
'As soon as you have this constellation - high density of animals and close 
association with new disease agents,' said Mr Samuel Jutzi, director of the 
animal production and health division of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, 
on Tuesday.
 
Between the 1970s and early 1990s, per capita consumption of meat, eggs and 
milk in the developing world rose by about 50 per cent, driving a massive 
increase in local production, according to the FAO, a United Nations agency.
In Thailand, for example, chicken rearing went from being a small backyard 
activity into an industrialised process in which 0.5 per cent of farms produced 
nearly two-thirds of all poultry.


full story:
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,232304,00.html



"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
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