Miyazaki’s on-going Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak has got me thinking of マイク・デイビス' Monster At Our Door 本と TomDispatch Interview on slums and disease.(available in Japanese translation too). Especially the way pundit-types in Japan seem to be trying to blame the outbreak on Korean and Hongkong, your (former) colonies always seem to be sending evil your way. As if Korean farmers aren’t facing the same kinds of problems as Japanese farmers. Foot and Mouth Disease has also been a problem in England. Is this another example of "ecological disorder of a very radical kind" that hasn’t gotten as much attention because the disease isn’t as lethal for people as Aids, Sars or the flu? Here’s Mike Davis interviewed on TomDispatch talking of the economic and social pressures of corporate-run ‘globalization’ that encourage pandemics and ‘bilogical disaster’ in general.
This is ecological disorder of a very radical kind and it has changed the ecology of influenza and the conditions under which animal diseases pass to humans. It’s also happened at a time when public health in much of the urban Third World has declined. One of the consequences of structural adjustment in the 1980s was to force hundreds of thousands of doctors, nurses, and public-health workers to emigrate, leaving Kenya or the Philippines to work in England or Italy.
これは生物災害の常套手段であり、鳥インフルエンザはグローバリゼーションの第二のパンデミックです。 HIV エイズが少なくとも部分的にブッシュミート貿易を通じて発生したことは今では非常に明らかである。ヨーロッパの工場船が伝統的な主要なタンパク源であるギニア湾の魚をすべて吸引していたため、西アフリカ人はブッシュミートに目を向けざるを得なくなったからだ。都会の食生活では。また、多くの状況証拠を伴った仮説として、おそらくキンシャシャ(コンゴ)でHIV感染が臨界量に達したのではないかという仮説もある。キンシャシャは国家崩壊か撤退後に何が起こるかを示す現在の究極の例である大都市だ。
つまり、HIV、鳥インフルエンザ、SARS、もう一つの病気はブッシュミートの取引から発生し、今回は中国南部の都市で発生し、恐ろしいスピードで世界中に広がりました。これが病気の未来です…
Of course the corporate and political shenanigans undertaken by the privileged just add fuel to the disorderly bonfire of ecocide just as with the Swine Flu in Mexico. Japan is all atwitter with rumors that the corporate undertaking seeking to profit from water buffalo chees tried to hide the first cases of Foot And Mouth Disease. The Agura Farm may have benefited from political connections それ shield them from the media, not to mention criminal charges。 がある a lot of Japanese chat about the farm owner being the son of a Pachinko firm owner that contributes to agriculture, forestry and fisheries Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu campaigns.
The central government admitted Tuesday that it may have mishandled the outbreak after it became known local authorities overlooked the infection during an on-site inspection in late March.
"There may have been certain problems in terms of having done everything we could to prevent the expansion," Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said. "The government will be united in working to avert further expansion of the infections, especially so people in the Kyushu area will feel safe."
The debacle also brings to mind basic アグロエコロジー principles that diversity is more stable. It would seem that Markets Hate Farmers, and the relentless branding and selling of one kind of meat could have lead to a lack of genetic diversity leaving the livestock populations vulnerable in spite of avoiding the unsanitary conditions of slumifacation faced by livestock in the United States. It would seem like most of the livestock were produced from the semen from only a few dozen cows. That can’t be sustainable.
Together accounting for 90% of artificial breeding in the prefecture, the six bulls were evacuated May 13 from a facility close to a town hit by foot-and-mouth disease.
I have a hunch that most calves are produced by artificial insemination. It’s like a little cottage industry, you stumble on little barns of 3 to 5 cows all over the place. Raising calves to supply meat suppliers provides some cash revenue to small-scale farmers. "A pig typically sells for about ¥35,000 and a cow for ¥500,000 to ¥1 million". I wonder about the genetic similarity and shared vulnerability of Japan’s fat-laced ‘Wagyu’ cows.
Miyazaki had 314,600 cows as of Feb. 1, accounting for 7.1 percent of the Japanese herd, and 914,500 pigs, 9.2 percent of the national total, Kokuho said.
Miyazaki also plays a significant role in supplying high-quality "wagyu" beef because farmers in Matsuzaka, Mie Prefecture, and other places buy calves from Miyazaki to breed them. Matsuzaka beef is considered the highest quality beef in Japan.
According to statistics compiled by the National Livestock Breeding Center, 84,059 "kuroge" (black hair) wagyu were born in Miyazaki in the year that ended in March 2009, accounting for 14.8 percent of that type of cow born in Japan. Kuroge wagyu is the most tender of all beef and thus the most popular in Japan.
You can’t help but think all these disinfection stations and animal cullings are inklings of a disease-ridden future if we don’t get our act together and implement some Foodfirst.org & ViaCampesina style policies to provide a secure food system、 無料 ウォールデンベロー〜の フードウォーズ.
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