Bird Flu Propaganda

Larry A. Law

"The overhyped threat of a human bird flu pandemic is a hoax to 'reset' our food system," says Dr. Nass. I follow Dr. Meryl Nass with the Children's Health Defense. She is an expert on bioweapons production and the efforts to manufacture hysteria—the type of hysteria we saw with the bioengineered, gain-of-function COVID-19 pandemic. 

Glycobiology is Involved

The figure below is from my more advanced glycobiology class, but you can see that altering the normal structure of the glycobiology sugars is what causes the avian flu to morph into a deadly form capable of infecting humans. I also have a less technical presentation (webinar) which talks about influenza, sialic acid and the H5N1 nomenclature the CDC uses to track the flu.

Main Points

A great resource is Dr. Joseph Mercola's, New York Times best-selling book (2005) "The Great Bird Flu Hoax." This fearmongering propaganda has been going on for a long time! Dr. Mercola shares an outstanding analysis written by Ashley Armstrong. ​She wrote a great article about:
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1) How fearmongering around bird flu mirrors COVID-19 responses, with calls for testing, social distancing, and vaccination in the agricultural sector. New radio-frequency identification (RFID) tagging requirements for dairy cows represent potential government overreach, aimed at increased animal tracking and control.

​2) Development of mRNA vaccines for bird flu in both humans and animals raises concerns about potential mandatory vaccinations and their impact on the food supply.

3) FDA warnings against raw milk consumption lack evidence of foodborne transmission of bird flu to humans and may serve to protect industrial dairy interests. The centralization of the food system has led to a 72% decrease in small farms over the last 90 years, emphasizing the need to support small-scale farmers directly.

4) The H5N1 virus may have origins in gain-in-function research, potentially emerging from a lab rather than occurring naturally in wild birds.
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5) Mass culling of poultry in response to outbreaks has led to over 92 million chickens being slaughtered since 2022, often using inhumane methods.

Dr. Nass shared Alexis Baden-Mayer's outstanding article on the real story behind the bird flu propaganda campaign. Below are excerpts from her analysis of the bird flu scare. 

Things to Know

1. If the bird flu is suddenly transmissible from person-to-person, suspect gain-of-function bioweapons research. 

Even as the so-called “public health” establishment gins up human cases (it’s a safe bet that any factory farm worker would be sick and have viruses up their nose after breathing manure all day), they are currently insisting there’s no person-to-person spread, the public health risk is low and the food from animals that test positive is safe to eat. But, as Christian Westbrook reported in 2022, former CDC Director Robert Redfield predicted on national television that bird flu will jump to humans and be highly fatal, triggering a "Great Pandemic" for which COVID-19 was a mere warm-up. Anthony Fauci had been funding Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Ron Fouchier’s efforts to get bird flu to leap to humans since 1990 and their work was connected to what Shortridge was doing in Hong Kong. For seven years prior to the first human H5N1 outbreak in 1997, Fauci had been funding Kawaoka’s gain-of-function bird flu research at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Kawaoka’s mentor there, Robert G. Webster, was working and publishing with Shortridge. Every year, Webster spent three months working with Shortridge at the University of Hong Kong, according to this profile of Webster which mentions Kawaoka as his protege. As Dilyana Gaytandzhieva reported in “Potential pandemic bird flu modified to be more dangerous in new risky NIH research,” Anthony Fauci created a global gain-of-function bird flu network known as the Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS) and the weaponized bird flus he commissioned can be found in labs all over the world. 

2. Spending millions of dollars to kill millions of chickens isn’t working.

The bird flu pandemic has been going on for decades, but it's only affected poultry, so the cruelty, waste and illogic of the bird flu response has garnered little attention. With COVID, people who are asymptomatic, but test positive are expected to quarantine. With bird flu, flocks that are asymptomatic, but test positive are destroyed en masse. “The policy of mass extermination without regard to immunity, without even researching why some birds flourish while all around are dying, is insane. The most fundamental principles of animal husbandry and breeding demand that farmers select for healthy immune systems.” …The answer is relatively simple. Save birds that survive the infection and breed them. That way, future generations will have natural immunity. “If a flock gets highly-pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), let it run its course. It'll kill the ones it'll kill, but in a few days the survivors will be obvious. Keep those and put them in a breeding program,” Salatin writes.

​3. Killing asymptomatic birds is cruel. 

USDA’s cruel and irresponsible plan relies on and incentivizes “depopulation” (the mass slaughter of innocent animals) to contain bird flu outbreaks rather than doing anything to address the stressful and overcrowded factory farm conditions that make such outbreaks virtually inevitable. 

4. Farmers aren’t complaining about killing asymptomatic birds, because they’re getting paid to do it. 

The government is guaranteeing farmers and poultry companies market prices and disposal costs when they destroy their flocks. It’s hard not to see that as a perverse incentive for an industry that’s been getting bigger in a way that could only crash prices.

5. The egg and chicken companies aren’t complaining; they’re enjoying higher prices. They don’t care if people go hungry. 

Yahoo is reporting, “Eggs jumped to $3 per dozen in 2024, double the cost of $1.45 in February 2020. However, prices are down from 2023, when a dozen eggs cost $4.82, according to USA Today statistics.” Fox News says, “Boneless chicken breast has increased in price 26%, from $3.26 per pound in January 2021 to $4.11 per pound in February 2024.” Low supply means higher prices and lower quality. 

6. Higher egg and chicken prices, and lower quality, could make Frankenfoods more competitive.

While conscientious animal advocates are pressing the USDA to invest in higher-welfare farming to keep flocks healthy, Frankenfood vegans are cheering on HPAI, despite the mass killings, celebrating what they see as the inevitable triumph of synthetic genetically modified organisms over animal farming. Factory farming is awful and it’s hard to be sympathetic to people in that industry, but synthetic biology and lab-grown meat aren’t any better. That switch would leave control of the food system in the hands of the exact same companies and evil billionaire investors–except with a tighter grip–and I wouldn’t put it past them to exaggerate, exacerbate or even plan a bird flu crisis to accomplish their goal of driving the last remaining independent farmers out of business and replacing real farms with fake food. 

7. With 33 billion chickens to vaccinate globally, the pharmaceutical companies will get rich quick, but there are plenty of bad actors seeing opportunities in a food crisis.

​There’s a significant overlap between the people, corporations and institutions involved in gain-of-function bioweapons research and those involved in the push to replace real farms with fake food. The thing that binds them is the technology. The same genetic engineering and synthetic biology techniques are used to create Frankenfoods and Frankenpathogens.