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Coronavirus outbreak: Chinese live animal markets a ‘recipe for disaster’

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Carlos Christian

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https://theunionjournal.com/coronavirus-outbreak-chinese-live-animal-markets-a-recipe-for-disaster/

H e informed the Telegraph that virus in farmed pets were well kept an eye on – there have actually been numerous episodes of the extremely pathogenic H5N1 bird flu in fowl recently however none have actually infected the human populace since strenuous illness monitoring grabs the infection and also the pets are chosen.

“When you have this viral soup and you have a collection of pigs, poultry and bats as you had in that market in Wuhan it’s a perfect incubator of diseases,” he claimed.

Dr Michael Osterholm, supervisor of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research and also Policy at the University of Minnesota, claimed that live animal markets were a issue throughoutAsia

” I have actually remained in a market in Bangkok which was virtually a mile by a mile inside – you can locate virtually any kind of animal possible. I have a image where there are cages loaded with ferrets and also in addition to them are hens. From a flu viewpoint, birds and also pets with each other are bad,” he claimed.

Victory: Ducks Unlimited 2,000 Bird Pigeon Shoot Cancelled

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We are pleased to announce that after receiving complaints about the event, and less than one day after we released this video about the issue, Ducks  Unlimited has cancelled the shoot! 
Here is the email we just received from Ducks Unlimited:
  Dale Hall forwarded me your email regarding the pigeon shoot and asked that I respond to you directly. Earlier  today, several Ducks Unlimited members contacted headquarters staff to make us aware that one of our committees was  planning to hold a pigeon shoot as part of a DU event. We have policies in place holding our staff and local  volunteers to high ethical and moral standards, and do not condone wanton waste of wildlife or other animals. To  avoid the potential for wanton waste, the event committee has decided to change the live pigeon event to a sporting  clays shoot.
   Sincerely,
Matt
Matt Coffey     Senior Communications Specialist     DUCKS UNLIMITED
  This is an astounding turn of events; for 20 years Ducks Unlimited has been holding these “phigeon  shoots,” where innocent pigeons have sharp pheasant tail feathers forced into their backs, and yet within one  day, and working together, we all were able to stop this vicious shoot.
This is the power of your activism at work – everyone who called and spoke out helped save not only 2,000 pigeons  whose horrific deaths were just two days away, but perhaps tens of thousands of pigeons in the years to come.
  We also want to thank Ducks Unlimited for recognizing that this was an important issue and taking quick action to  stop this atrocity from happening again.
If you’d like to thank them for stopping the pigeon shoot, please send a polite email to Dale Hall, CEO of Ducks Unlimited. DHall@ducks.org
In the following picture, you will see three birds that SHARK rescued at live pigeon shoots. We know, from having held these birds, and many more like them, that each of them is an individual living being who felt joy and suffering.
Thank you for helping us save 2,000 individual living beings just like these three.

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        Kindest Regards,                 Steve Hindi and Your SHARK Team    
    “Kindness and compassion towards all living beings is a mark of a civilized society. Racism, economic    deprival, dog fighting and cock fighting, bullfighting and rodeos are all cut from the same fabric:    violence. Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well    ourselves.” – Cesar Chavez, civil rights and labor leader, founder of the United Farm Workers

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