Swine flu - is factory farming the culprit?

The source of this new virus is currently unknown BUT experts have warned for years of the risks to human health from factory farming methods. These intensive systems act as a pressure cooker for disease, resulting in the threat of avian influenza in poultry farms, BSE in cattle and MRSA in pigs.

To read more, visit www.ciwf.org/swineflu

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[CIWFFOOTAGE]

This short film demonstrates how pigs are kept in industrial farms in the EU. The majority of our pork and bacon is reared in these lower welfare systems.

Is this where the current swine fever pandemic originiated? It is too soon to say...

However, what we can be sure of is that the conditions in these farms raise the ability of disease to spread rapidly and in each shed there are multiple opportunities for the viruses to mutate as they move from pig to pig.

[nogerdsurg]

This is so sad. Pigs are very intelligent, and clean animals. They only use mud and dirt to cool off because they don't have sweat glands. Their snouts are very sensitive to strong bad odors, and they get respiratory infections from smelling the strong foul smell of amonia in urine. How miserable for these animals which are as intelligent as 4yr olds! As awful as these conditions are, they are not as bad as the confining farrowing & gestational crates, where they can't walk or turn around.

[famouseli]

ffs everytime i look at stuff like this i wanne put people in cells like that... and see how they react

[jaymrob99]

bull shit...

[ashadale]

gross