But, however, don't worry, it's safe! Yes, we are promised, as always, this should not affect your turkey-buying rampant consumerism. This is the low-key avian flu, H7N3, not the dreaded H5N1. This one, we are assured, is in no way dangerous to people as helpfully noted in the Kansas City Star:
Missouri agriculture officials say humans are rarely affected by the strain of avian flu found at the farm. Cargill declined to give its location, to keep the curious from showing up and possibly spreading the disease. - Kansas City Star - 03/31/2011The underlying message (not quite subliminal, however) is that this is okay, it is not dangerous. Turkey is safe to eat. Even turkey infected with bird flu (well, low-brow, second-class bird flu, not the dangerous stuff way over there in Japan) is safe to eat. The only reason they slaughtered these birds is to keep the flu from spreading. But we can still eat their carcasses.
So where is the undisclosed location, and why are they hiding the location from us? Are they afraid we will strap on our "kiss-the-carnivore" bibs and head off to that location, for a good time and an old-fashioned BBQ? Pass me one of them turkey legs and let's pretend we are at the renaissance fair! Could the undisclosed location be a Wal-mart near you? Or a Kentucky-Fried Turkey fast-food joint?
People helping with the operation wore protective suits and masks, and tires were hosed off before leaving. Polk County Emergency Management Director Rick Lewis said the turkey carcasses were being taken to an undisclosed approved location. One person helping with the effort later told us that place is a landfill. - April 01, 2011|by Linda Russell, KY3 News | lrussell@ky3.comThe undisclosed location is a landfill. Now why in the world should we be burying these allegedly "safe-to-eat" turkeys in a landfill? How are we supposed to eat them? Isn't that kind of like eating out of a big ole garbage dump? Why not have a big turkey cook-off and invite all the hungry children to a free meal? We could even distribute FREE influenza vaccinations, one shot with every bite!
Why not? Because the turkeys are not safe to eat. Yes, we are told over and over that if you cook'em and cook'em good, then they are safe to eat. Really, turkeys and pigs and chickens (oh my) infected with influenza are quite healthy to eat, they are good for you, in fact, the meat infected with flu should be labeled as preferable to that which is not infected. This is what we are told. Because we need to protect the dollar. But it is a lie, and you know it is a lie. Your BS detectors light up like Christmas Eve, but for some reason you ignore those flashing lights.
So we kill thousands of turkeys and bury them in an undisclosed landfill (perhaps just down the street from you) and we flood the media with how safe it is to eat infected carcasses (if you cook'em good) and we lie to the public, outright, and tell them that H1N1 did not come from pigs, that it is not a disease of zoonoses origins (a disease which makes the genetic leap from animals to humans), and so by correlation the "Bird Flu" probably did not originate in our avian neighbors, and neither illness is truly dangerous to humans, that in fact it is all a trumped up advertisement for Government-provided flu vaccines.
Unplug from the talking heads, and think it through for yourself. True, it might cause a burning sensation deep somewhere between your left ear and your right ear, but if you practice "thinking for yourself" a few times, the pain should go away, and you might discover that you like it, thinking, and thinking for yourself.
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