An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian flu is ravaging the U.S. food supply, infecting birds in all 50 states and spreading to mammals including humans. Disturbing new reports show that it’s in Americans’ food now, too. Experts say “there is always a chance the virus may evolve to more easily transmit among humans.” Scary stuff.
The bird flu outbreak has cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars in rising food costs, new government oversight of the food supply, and industry bailout money, too.
So why is the Department of Agriculture working with Wuhan-affiliated experimenters in China to create more dangerous bird flu viruses in the lab?
People will be shocked to learn that the USDA, the same agency charged with stemming the current bird flu outbreak, has wasted at least $1 million of taxpayer funds in recent years to soup up bird flu viruses in dangerous laboratory…
