Resumo de The Great Bird Flu Hoax - Dr. Joseph Mercola, Pam Killeen

?The widely forecasted bird flu pandemic has not yet arrived, and asyou will discover by reading this book, it is never going to arrive.?This assertion comes from authors Dr. Joseph Mercola and Pam Killeenalong with eye-opening facts and solid research to back up theirargument. Beginning with an explanation of the disease itself and how,where, and why it was contracted beginning in 1997, the authorslogically and systematically debunk the whole notion of a bird flupandemic, and how critical information is not highlighted by mainstream media, including the fact that the only people who actually diedfrom bird flu were in close contact with infected birds and thatcomparisons to the Spanish flu outbreak of 1918 are invalid sincesanitation and hygiene are vastly better in the 21st century.This book goes on to give a behind-the-scenes glimpse into how and whythe media proffers wholesale deception to the public regarding theso-called threat of bird flu. One way that media was used to manipulatethe facts about the bird flu was the airing on May 9, 2006 on ABC ofthe movie Fatal Contact: Bird Flu inAmerica.The movie, which was full of desperate people seeking a vaccine to curethem, was introduced as fiction but some stations posted phone numbersat the bottom of the screen at the end of the movie, a sort of hotlineto the public health department. It also coincided with PresidentBush?s announcement that he was allocating $1 billion to five companiesto develop vaccines against a pandemic strain. Let?s face it; fearsells and no one knows this better than the media. And pandemic in the headline is right up there with murder and O.J. Simpson.Bird flu has been fatal butmostly to birds themselves which were killed by the millions just incase they carried the virus. Corporate agribusiness practices espousehorrid living conditions for poultry, packing up to nine hens in aspace the size of a filing cabinet. Under such conditions, disease iseasily spawned. Factory farming is most likely the real cause of thedisease but mainstream media does not report this. And big poultrycompanies want to keep the public in the dark because they stand toprofit from the bird fluscare tactics by being able to sell theirproducts in countries where outbreaks in poultry have occurred forcingthem to import poultry, as well as putting small poultry farms out ofbusiness by smear campaigns alleging that outdoor birds at small farmsare more likely to catch and spread the disease when in fact unhealthy,factory farmed indoor birds are. The biggest winners in the bird flu scare are drug companies who standto rake in billions from production of Tamiflu for which there is scantevidence of effectiveness. The authors go onto explain how the bestoffense against bird flu, or any illness for that matter is defense:improving one?s immune system by eating right, exercising, and gettingenough rest and sunshine. This may sound simplistic and it definitelyis not headline-worthy, but Dr. Mercola is a well-known critic ofconventional medicine and his popular website, mercola.com is packedwith information and articles about alternative approaches to health. To end the book on a positive note,the authors suggest ways that thebird flu scare could have unintended benefits,namely that if citizensare willing to look beyond the fear mongering and begin to question thescience behind the panic-filled reports, they undoubtedly will see thatbehemoth, multinational food corporations focus only on theirbottomlines to the detriment of public health and that factory farmsand drug companies are much scarier than any avian flu. The bottom lineis that there is no evidence to support an impending bird flu pandemicand the sooner the public understands the real motivations behind thebird flu scare, the better.

Resumos Relacionados