
by Brian Shilhavy – April 12, 2022
Editor, Health Impact News
The “Bird Flu Pandemic” scare has been employed to create fear in the public from time to time and to use as an excuse to attack small-scale poultry farmers who raise their chickens and turkeys outdoors on pasture, rather than in confined huge warehouses that the commercial industry operates.
President George W. Bush was the first one to declare a “Bird Flu Pandemic” back in 2006, with apocalyptic warnings of imminent danger that kicked in massive federal funding to develop a new flu shot that incorporated this new “virus.”
The pandemic never came, but people made a lot of money off of it, and they went after small-scale poultry producers to protect the large commodity poultry operations from competition.
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