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Agribusiness and Animal Flu |
 We've heard that whenever there's an "outbreak," vast quantities of lettuce, spinach, chicken, beef, and whatever else is recalled. In countries all over the world, brigades of "police" have swooped down on small farmers and seized their healthy animals to asphyxiate, slaughter, burn or bury them alive. There goes a family's entire livelihood and food supply. If you create propaganda about one or another kind of animal-to-human illness, you can eliminate independent farmers all over the world. Remember hoof-and-mouth disease? Mad cow? Bird flu? And now there's swine flu.
Killing (it's called "culling") animals makes it possible for agricultural giants like Tyson Foods to take over markets all over the world. Small farmers are often paid incremental compensation for their destroyed flocks, but it never makes up for their losses. Having invested time, money and energy building their farms, they are left in debt and with no choice but to work for the new giants on the scene. If they do try to bounce back independently, new "regulations" force them to spend exorbitant sums re-vamping their facilities, again plunging them deep into debt.
It even happens to big companies: "In 1997, Tyson Foods expressed interest in buying beef giant Hudson Foods. Hudson declined the Tyson offer. Very soon after the rejection of Tyson's bid, a government inspectorate task force under the control of Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman 'visited' Hudson Foods, where they very conveniently 'found' evidence of E.coli bacteria contamination. By the time Glickman's task force had finished with Hudson Foods, the story had taken on national and international proportions, with the 'beleaguered' company having to recall 25 million pounds of beef, costing the company its largest customer, Burger King. The resultant fallout devalued Hudson's corporate stock by 35 percent. ... [Although] the presence of E.coli at the Hudson plant was never proven, the damage had been done. In 1998, Tyson Foods managed to acquire Hudson Foods at a rock bottom price, in a deal described by Leonard Teitlebaum of Merrill Lynch as 'adding beautifully to Tyson's distribution and production system.'" (Read full article by Steven Ransom here.)
In 2004 bird flu showed up in China, where the Liu Brothers and their company New Hope, Ltd. muscled control of food production with Tyson-style tactics. It's called "vertically integrated industrial farming," and is frequently backed by governments. Out go the small farmers and in come the giants. In 2006, news reports announced bird flu in India. Chickens and farmers experienced the results. Quoting Dr. Sherri Tenpenny's book Fowl: "What remains to be seen is the quality of the chickens given to farmers as 'replacements' for the free-range domestic birds that have been culled from their backyards. Quite possibly they will all be the genetically modified, fast-growing birds created by the world's largest breeders, Aviagen or Tyson's Cobb-Ventress."
Between mass vaccinations for humans (see our "Swine Flu: A Vaccination Ruse" above), agri-business takeovers and introducing more GMO foods, the animal-flu conspiracy is an effective one ... To use the familiar expression, it kills a great many birds with one stone.
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Last Updated on Monday, 31 August 2009 16:11 |
