What "great" news we have been hearing the past three months or so regarding all these pet-food recalls for salmonella poisioning. I don't even want to begin to figure the ratio of good pet food vs. bad pet food. The shelves aren't empty, but they're certainly more light-weight.
Now Jenni emailed me an article which says that several dozen fish species are being killed off in Lakes Erie & Ontario due to the viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus which has infected 19 different fish species in the New York area. Although it does not directly affect humans, the disease has killed off members of six of the species, and can be spread very easily, even by tainted bait.
Look at what's happened the last ten years or so, especially in this area. Combine the salmonella issues and the VHS issue along with the Emerald Ash Borer, the zebra mussels which crowded the Detroit River years ago, all the beach closings in southeast Michigan with the e.coli bacteria breakout, mad cow disease in England, the pending arrival of the "killer bee" in the next several years, and you have to wonder: what is happening to the balance of nature?
And what will happen to our source, and our pets' sources, of food?
Remember also that corn is skyrocketing in price due to its use in ethanol. What will be left for us to eat that isn't just machine processed pellets with loads of preservatives?
Years ago, I used to laugh at a Looney Tunes cartoon featuring the Gopher Twins, who end up getting caught in a food processing plant. One of the gophers ended up in a water-soluable food packet which opened when you added water. The idea of such food packets was decades ahead of its time and was played for laughs.
Will we need to watch that cartoon in order to see what the future actually holds for our food consumption, the health of our pets, the safety of our beaches, and the well-being of the fishing industry?
If there's anyone who's an expert on how to truly slow down & eradicate these diseases so they do not threaten livelihood, please stand forward. We've heard all the news, and the situation could grow worse. Someone needs to step up and say there's a plan, then stop talking and implement the plan.
Science brags about being so technologically advanced that our heads would spin. Our heads are only shaking right now, particularly mine, at the fact that these advancements have done nothing to cure these conditions found out there.
The food chain must be kept out of danger, or lives will change from a totally different perspective: biological.
