Avian Flu – Mad Cow Disease - (and now) Swine Flu.
Wonder if this is nature’s way of telling us to stay vegetarian to remain healthy...
If I look back and have got my fact rights then all these diseases have their genesis in those pig farm or poultry farm or like. These farms which are men’s effort to play God, to control life and death of lesser animals, to alter the food chain.
And somewhere in form of these flus and fevers, nature is issuing us warnings to mend our ways & to restrict our greed. But, probably we are not going to get the message. In a few months, vaccine for swine flu will be developed and WHO will declare human victory over the virus.
But just as a parent is forced to get tough with a kid when he ignores repeated warnings, I fear that if we keep ignoring these warnings from nature we may just be exposing us to a far more serious lesson. But, I pray that this fear of mine is just that – a fear and nothing more.
PS: Just on a lighter note if we look at the pattern in first line ( chicken – beef – pork), may be next big virus is taking shape in some fishery.
Wonder if this is nature’s way of telling us to stay vegetarian to remain healthy...
If I look back and have got my fact rights then all these diseases have their genesis in those pig farm or poultry farm or like. These farms which are men’s effort to play God, to control life and death of lesser animals, to alter the food chain.
And somewhere in form of these flus and fevers, nature is issuing us warnings to mend our ways & to restrict our greed. But, probably we are not going to get the message. In a few months, vaccine for swine flu will be developed and WHO will declare human victory over the virus.
But just as a parent is forced to get tough with a kid when he ignores repeated warnings, I fear that if we keep ignoring these warnings from nature we may just be exposing us to a far more serious lesson. But, I pray that this fear of mine is just that – a fear and nothing more.
PS: Just on a lighter note if we look at the pattern in first line ( chicken – beef – pork), may be next big virus is taking shape in some fishery.
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good one ;-)
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