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Bird Flu: Meat-Eaters Are to Blame Practically every newspaper, TV station, and other media outlet across the globe has been talking about avian flu recently and the possibility that the virus could mutate into a disease that could kill hundreds of millions of people in a short span of time. What most news reporters have failed to mention is that there would be no bird flu pandemic if humans didn’t keep billions of birds in filthy sheds in factory farms. This is where you come in—we want you to send letters to the editors of local publications to expose the truth about modern farming practices. Here is a sample letter to give you some idea of what to say. Use it as a starting point to create your own letter to submit to your school newspaper, local newspapers and magazines, and any other news source you can think of. Check out PETA’s Guide to Letter-Writing for more tips. As days go by, the risk of a bird flu pandemic becomes more and more real. Just walk into any factory-farm chicken or turkey shed and it’s easy to see why. One shed houses tens of thousands of birds who are never allowed outside and are cooped up in their own filth. When one bird gets sick, the disease can quickly spread to all of them. History shows that each and every pandemic within the last 100 years arose because of animal agriculture. Farmers know that they have created breeding grounds for diseases, so they dose their animals with massive amounts of drugs. Every time you put yourself in contact with or consume animal products, you risk infecting yourself with bird flu or some other deadly virus. If you are going to eat meat, then ensuring that you and your family are protected from bird flu and similar food pathogens requires that you treat your kitchen like a biohazard laboratory. There’s an easier solution, though—adopting a vegetarian diet. For more information and to order a free vegetarian starter kit, visit GoVeg.com. Sincerely, To submit your letter, search for the Web site of your local newspaper, look for the “Contact Us” section, and follow the instructions. If you’re sending it to a school newspaper, just ask the newspaper advisor or someone on the newspaper staff where to submit letters to the editor. Send a copy of your letter to the editor to StreetTeam@peta2.com along with your full name and the name of the newspaper that you wrote to. We’ll give you 750 Street Team points for each letter to the editor you send us. That’s right—send letters to as many newspapers as possible; it’ll up your chances of being published. If your letter is in fact published, e-mail or mail us a copy, and we’ll reward you with a free T-shirt of your choice from PETACatalog.org. |
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