While an article in the Hindu Business Line tells us that China’s poultry industry has lost 65 BILLION Yuan since the end of March, what I found shocking is that the industry has been losing an average of one billion Yuan a day for the past two months! What I want to know is, how many millions of birds does it take to raise one billion Yuan and what kind of horrendous living conditions must that many birds be forced to endure? How miserably confined, overcrowded and devoid of any semblance to natural bird life must it be like (for the short time their allowed to live).
The article (inadvertently) points out some shocking facts, which I’ve highlighted in
bold…
Bird flu costs China’s poultry industry $65 bn: State media
Beijing, May 21:
China’s human H7N9 bird flu outbreak has cost the country’s poultry industry more than $65 billion as consumers shun chicken, government officials said according to state media yesterday.
The sector has been losing an average of one billion yuan a day since the end of March, the Beijing Times said, citing Li Xirong, head of the National Animal Husbandry Service.
H7N9 avian influenza has infected 130 people in China, killing 35, since it was found in humans for the first time, according to latest official data.
Poultry sales have tumbled and prices plunged, Li said, causing major financial problems and job losses as a result.
Another agriculture ministry official, Wang Zongli, said government agencies should set a good example for the public by treating “poultry products in a correct way”, the report added.
In a stunt to boost confidence, officials and poultry business leaders in the eastern province of Shandong held a widely reported all-chicken lunch last week, according to Chinese media.
China has seen several food safety scares in recent years, including one in which the industrial chemical melamine was added to dairy products in 2008, killing at least six babies and making 300,000 ill.
Exposing the Big Game 
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I don’t even know what to say about this.
Other than, someone’s sick–and it’s not the birds.
The other day I got into a huge debate with a co-worker that escalated to the point where I had to walk away. He started it. He tried justifying his meat and dairy consumption by using the Bible and Doctrine. He then downshifted his argument by stating that we have evolved from Neanderthals. Honestly! When a meat eater starts quoting the Bible and our supposed evolution from Cave Men, I have to walk away because it’s bullshit, utter fucking bullshit. We did not “evolve from Neanderthals!” and I don’t subscribe to the Bible (Old T or New T). Besides, according to my friend Thomas (also a vegan) we existed at the same time as Neanderthals.
This is what Thomas had to say,
Neanderthals were a different species than us and we didn’t evolve from them, we both existed at the same time and evolved from a common ancestor. In other words, we are to Neanderthal as we are to Chimpanzees. Evolutionarily speaking, we are cousins.”
I could go on, but you get my point.
God Hates China. They are going straight to hell.
They didn’t invent factory farming.
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We and the animals are stuck in the worst, most evil insane asylum. Someone has got to come to make things right and mete out real justice on this “god”forsaken planet.
and soon.
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