* Dr. Sherry Tenpenny, a Board Certified Emergency Medical Doctor has written a book titled, "Fowl! Bird Flu: It's Not What You Think?"
5. Why is the Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection concerned about a disease [avian flu] that well-known medical doctors say are "plagues that have more to do with feeding the pockets of big-business moguls and politicians than protecting the public?"
6. Why does every news story on the subject of bird flu cover the "risk" of migrating birds carrying the disease from country to country? Is it because large poultry corporations are using bird flu to drive smaller competitors out of business?
7. Why isn't the public being told about the large U.S. chicken producers [Tyson, Perdue and ConAgra] that are profiting from the panic over "outdoor" birds?
8. Why isn't the public being told about the biotech companies racing to develop genetically engineered vaccines for bird flu? Or the Florida-based biotech company Viragen that holds the worldwide exclusive license to develop genetically engineered chickens that produce target drugs in their egg whites? Or the biotech industry's goal to develop a transgenic chicken that is resistant to the bird flu virus?
[Laurence Tiley, professor of Molecular Virology at Cambridge University where a transgenic chicken development project is underway, told the Times, "Once we have regulatory approval, we believe it will only take between four and five years to breed enough chickens to replace the entire world chicken population."]
9. How does a tracking system prevent animal disease?
10. Why have the NAIS working groups been drawn from large meat companies, technology companies and large associations that stand to profit from NAIS?
11. Why isn't the public being told that the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that our vulnerability to animal disease, whether natural or from terrorism, stems from flaws in our food supply system that have nothing to do with identification and tracking."
12. Why isn't the public being told that a system of large, consolidated farms dependent on massive shipping and transportation is far more vulnerable to disease than a decentralized system of local farms?
As ecologist Doug Flack says, "NAIS will ensure that what really survives is a centralized food system, not a local food system. The safest food supply is a local food supply."
13. Why does NAIS contain no mention of improper diet, confinement systems, massive overcrowding, improper feeding, overuse of antibiotics and poor care that encourage epidemics?
14. Why isn't the public being told about Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)? Charles Walters, who founded AcresUSA, defines CAFO with the following equation:
Big Business + Bad Science = CAFO
Charles Walters says corporations make claims that they will "Feed the World" with their genetics technologies and that they are sustainable, a claim that couldn't be further from the truth. He says, "The primary responsibility of large corporations is to their shareholders and not to consumers."
15. If the Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection is truly concerned about consumer protection:
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