Re: Scotsmen

Frank de Groot wrote:
"Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote


The primary vector of avian influenza to people is chickens. Getting
rid of the pigs gets rid of some percentage of the cases; getting rid
of the chickens gets ride of essentially all of them. Without that
resevoir of human-managed and highly-contacted chickens, it wouldn't
matter what we did with pigs.



Sure, you are right perhaps.

It's just that you'll might have a harder time persuading Asia to give up poultry than pork :)


but then again (if Thomas logic is correct) why would we want to try if it does not make too much sense? WOuld it not be better to spend time and effort on actions that can bring something instead of (inevitable in such case) mass slaughter of one or other type of animal?
What is the point of easy corner invasion (to use the analogy) if the profits are too small to tip the balance into our favour?


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