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Friday, January 16, 2004

Let's go vegan! 

Mad cow disease in the US of A.
Bird flu in Vietnam, Japan and South Korea.
Coronavirus-carrying civet cats in Guangzhou.
Fowl cholera in Thailand.
Carcinogenic salmon from the UK.

Going by current trends, the meat on our tables will soon end up in the slaughterhouses for all the wrong reasons.

And as Marshall McLuhan (he of "the message is the medium" fame) says, "the world is a global village". How true. Diseases are spread throughout the world with an ease that had never been seen before. One man carrying the SARS virus could hop onto a plane and infect others at an astonishing rate. And as our kids get smarter, so do viruses. They mutate and change in strains in response to new bodies and even environments.

This is the whole new world.

yAnn at 1/16/2004 01:32:00 AM