“Once a virus gets into an intensive poultry shed it can move quickly through the flock, constantly replicating itself. Any "errors" or changes to the genetic code during replication don't get repaired: this is how the virus mutates and new variant strains emerge. The tragedy is that while intensive farms provide ideal conditions for the emergence of new aggressive disease strains, wild birds can then become infected too. Experience from the 2005 outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) H5N1 suggests that the disease is more likely spread along major road and rail routes than on the flight routes of migratory birds.”Philip Lymbery book FarmageddonFarmageddon (2014)
“The harder farmers push animals beyond their natural limit, and the more closely animals are confined, often the greater the risk of disease and the heavier the reliance on vets to keep herds alive. Their weapon of choice is antibiotics.”Philip Lymbery book FarmageddonFarmageddon (2014)
“Is the Farmageddon scenario – the death of our countryside, a scourge of disease and billions starving – inevitable?”Philip Lymbery book FarmageddonFarmageddon (2014)