Eating Animals: Influence/Speechlessness

Chapter 5 discusses plagues that have drastically affected entire generations. These diseases such as the 1918 Pandemic (also known as the Spanish Flu) as well as the potential pandemic based on the H5N1 virus strand all share something in common, they have found their way from animals to humans. Another unsettling topic mentioned in this chapter is that WHO (World Health Organization) is expecting a devastating pandemic to occur. In fact, they believe it is "overdue". With the prediction of 2 to 7.4 million deaths if the bird flu is passed onto humans, WHO expects great casulties to all countries as well as economic and social disturbances worldwide. So why are humans so susceptible to this possible bird flu? The answer lies in industrial animal-processing techiniques. And again we are led back to factory farms and their harmful and now possibly deadly effects on our lives.