Here's a list of zoonotic diseases prominent in the livestock industry:
gastrointestinal dysentery
salmonellosis
E. coli
campylobacteriosis
toxoplasmosis
listeriosis
toxigenic
cryptosporidiosis
leptospirosis
cysticercosis
tuberculosis
rabies
leishmaniasis
brucellosis
echinococcosis
toxoplasmosis
Q fever
trypanosomosis
hepatitis E
anthrax
And with county fairs gearing up for their show-tell-and kill festivities - Here's a round up of advice for participants who wanna watch:
Wash your hands before and after exposure to animals, don’t eat or drink in areas where animals are kept.
Visitors and exhibitors should wash and sanitize after touching any livestock and should not eat or drink in the animal barns, Miller said.
"Washing hands before you eat, every time you eat, greatly reduces the spread of disease. This is particularly important after visiting animal exhibits or being in direct contact with animals."
Never eat, drink or put things in your mouth while in animal areas and don’t take food or drink into animal areas.
“By not eating around farm animals, you greatly decrease your risk of getting the flu.”
Make sure there’s plenty of hand sanitizer in all of the livestock barns and signs up reminding fair-goers to wash their hands and avoid eating in the barns.
Don't drink or eat near pigs, and don't take food into animal areas.
REPEAT:
Don’t take food or drink into animal areas.
Guests of the fair shouldn’t touch the swine and don’t take food into barns.
Fair attendees should avoid carrying food or drink or putting things in the mouth while in the animal display areas.
Soap, water and frequent hand washing are the only ways to prevent the spread of infection when people, animals and food come together.
People who have contact with these animals should take precautions such as washing their hands, not eating or drinking in areas with swine.
And repeated through the industry handlers in regards to the 289 cases (15 hospitalized/1 dead) of H3N2v flu virus in one month's time:
Never eat, drink or put things in your mouth while in animal areas and don’t take food or drink into animal areas.
And in North Carolina after an E-coli event at the fair they are putting up barriers in this year's fair... Yes, (ironically) even the "petting zoo" is "hands off" with the animals.
See the pattern here?... Animals and food just don't mix!
But - Cooking up a 260 pound "pork burger"? Not a problem!
6 comments:
The primary disease I see featured here is the disease of denial. Denial that animals are autonomous beings. Denial that humans are not any more exceptional than the rest of earth's inhabitants. Denial that fear, ignorance, and materialism are the perpetrators of discordant, diseased relations between us and animals. Denial that love, understanding and spirituality prevent the self-imposed diseases of mankind more effectively than any hand-sanitizer, medicine or effort to avoid touching harmless animals.
The only kind of "hands-off the animals" that I support is the kind that gives all individuals within all species the right to not be our products, our profit centers, our pleasure-enhancers, our property.
Maybe the best rule here would be to not go where the animals are housed (unless you can help or comfort them)...instead protest outside the event in the hopes of ending it.
Excellent post...thank you.
Even if you don't care about animals, with all the diseases and the increasing number of items/stores being added to the XL foods recall list here in Canada, eating meat today is just plain stupid. IMHO. ;)
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/five-more-cases-of-e-coli-linked-to-massive-beef-recall-1.986119
I agree with you CQ - These folks do exemplify the worst of fear, ignorance, and stuff-gluttony I've ever seen. One can only imagine how vulgar their "celebrations" are off camera. Pitiful that so many beautiful lives are in those greedy hands.
Except to battle that ideology whenever we can - The safest thing is to avoid it like the plague that it is.
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veganelder you're speaking the truth again. I know some activists go to these fairs to witness and document what they can... I don't know that I'd want to give these slave-shows a nickle of my life's value...
That's all I've been reading these past few weeks with the comming of fall - All these "harvesting" events and flesh-eating binges. Ugh! It's just absolutely depraved to see with open eyes. Totally repulsive. :(
I appreciate your visit.
Hi HGV - On a very pragmatic level - I'd say your practical advice is worth heeding. From what I know - the attendance at these shin-digs has been declining every year... I suppose that's a silver lining. (?)
I know about that recall too - Canada's largest --- Thousands of tons of "unfit" and dangerous murdered flesh. Yeah! What a way to "feed the world"! :/
I appreciate your comment - And all you do!
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