In article ,
OmManiPadmiOmelet wrote:

Chicken is our primary source of cheap protein.
It's why this whole bird flu' bullshit has me so worried. :-(
It could cause the price of poultry to skyrocket out of the price range
of the average and poor.

It is such a load of garbage! There have been 109 deaths worldwide
due to avian flu, in countries that lack decent health care, and there
have been 36 thousand deaths from "normal" influenza in the last year
alone, you can get it from wild birds, and are more likely to, so who
cares about chickens, unless you're in the habit of drinking raw duck
blood, eating raw poultry, or not washing after handling raw poultry,
your chances are pretty close to nil. I am very disturbed that our
government would be interested in killing flocks if they _suspect_ AI in
the area, without even testing.

Regards,
Ranee

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Ranee Mueller wrote:

In article ,
OmManiPadmiOmelet wrote:


Chicken is our primary source of cheap protein.
It's why this whole bird flu' bullshit has me so worried. :-(
It could cause the price of poultry to skyrocket out of the price range
of the average and poor.


It is such a load of garbage! There have been 109 deaths worldwide
due to avian flu, in countries that lack decent health care, and there
have been 36 thousand deaths from "normal" influenza in the last year
alone, you can get it from wild birds, and are more likely to, so who
cares about chickens, unless you're in the habit of drinking raw duck
blood, eating raw poultry, or not washing after handling raw poultry,
your chances are pretty close to nil. I am very disturbed that our
government would be interested in killing flocks if they _suspect_ AI in
the area, without even testing.

Regards,
Ranee

You won't get any arguments from me....
I think the whole thing is being overblown to sell Tamaflu and future
vaccines.

And to drive the price of poultry up maybe? sigh

More children die every year from RSV (which is highly contagious in
childcare settings and all TOO few parents know about!) than die every
year of ordinary 'flu.

It's sad and it sux.
I still cry over the last 2 year old I saw die from it at our hospital a
few weeks ago. :-( I feel SO bad for the families that this happens to!

Om

jay wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:44:03 -0700, Food Snob wrote:


Then you can eat just like people do at all those chain restaurants
where they don't really cook food, but just thaw, reheat and arrange
on plates. At some of them you can't get a burger cooked medium
because the burgers come pre-cooked.

--Bryan

I think you missed something. She did NOT go to a chain restaurant
for things to freeze and reheat.

I'm not sure what restaurants Bryan has eaten in, but the ones I worked in
didn't pull something out of the freezer, thaw it, reheat it and arrange it
on a plate. There was actual *cooking* going on back there. Meats, fish
and produce delivered daily.

Jill