Dr. Michael Greger has written a fascinating book, Bird Flu, A Virus of Our Own Hatching, published by Lantern Books. Dr. Greger gives strong evidence that influenza epidemics result from intensive farming practices. Here are a few quotes from the book.


" ‘High concentrations of animals,’ concluded the International Food Policy Research Institute, ‘can become breeding grounds for disease.’ " -page 73

"In October 2005, the United Nations issued a press release on bird flu specifically calling on governments to fight what they call ‘factory farming’: ‘Governments, local authorities and international agencies need to take a greatly increased role in combating the role of factory-farming, commerce in live poultry, and wildlife markets which provide ideal conditions for the virus to spread and mutate into a more dangerous form….’ " -page 182

" ‘In our efforts to streamline farming practices to produce more meat for more people, we have inadvertently created conditions by which a harmless parasite of wild ducks can be converted into a lethal killer of humans.’
—Johns Hopkins neurovirologist R.H. Yolken and Stanley Medical Research Institute director E.F. Torrey" -page 166

The book can be read for free online at www.birdflubook.com. You can also order the book from this website.

"A brilliant and captivating book, meticulously researched, beautifully and engagingly written with wit and grace, and argued with relentless logic. In addition to providing practical take-home tips for protecting oneself from the flu, the author elegantly demonstrates that the evolution of the devastating influenza virus .............stems directly from the proliferation of confinement agricultural systems. ..." -Bernard Rollin, PhD, University Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University