The relationship between rampant swine diseases and changes in ecological environmental pollution
Pollution changes in the ecological environment and the rampant spread of swine diseases
(Agricultural Wealth Network) In recent years, various swine infectious diseases have dealt a devastating blow to the pig farming industry nationwide, driving many pig farms to the brink of bankruptcy several times over. In today's era of rapid development in modern pharmaceutical science, drugs are simply ineffective against some infectious diseases.
This forces us to think deeply: just a few decades ago, how could there have been so many infectious diseases? Back then, pigs ate nothing but bran, vegetables and swill, and lived in filthy water pens, yet they hardly ever got sick. Now pigs eat cornmeal, soybean cake and vitamins, live in high-grade pig houses, and get injections and disinfection every day -- living better than some people -- yet they catch every disease, and once sick, they cannot be cured. Living and eating better, yet getting sick; soaking in stinking water pits, eating bran and vegetables, drinking filthy water, yet staying healthy. What does this tell us? Is it not worth pondering?
I believe all of this is caused by us humans destroying the environment and altering the ecological food chain. Using anti-inflammatory drugs, bactericides and disinfectants every day may kill pathogenic bacteria, but it also kills all the beneficial bacteria, leaving the pathogenic bacteria without natural enemies -- which is exactly what allows them to run rampant and destroy pig farms.
This is the same as the situation a few years ago when rat poison was sold everywhere. Back then, even in the crop fields in the wild, rats were everywhere, eating the seeds just planted. Later, when rat poison was no longer available, there were actually fewer rats -- in some places there were none at all -- because there were more cats, the natural enemies of rats. Everything in nature has a food chain. Cats eating rats is a food chain. Pigs eating excrement and waste, and the bacteria in the waste competing against the pathogenic bacteria in pigs -- that is also a food chain. When you destroy the food chain, the food chain between putrefactive bacteria and pathogenic bacteria becomes unbalanced. Once viruses and bacteria lose their natural enemies that compete against them, relying on our drugs alone is not enough -- that is why they cause massive harm to pigs.
The nature of pigs is to live in an environment of waste. The beneficial bacteria in the waste coexist harmoniously with pigs, and the pigs and beneficial bacteria together compete against pathogenic bacteria. We changed the living environment of pigs, so the pigs' good friends -- the beneficial bacteria -- are gone, and the pigs cannot fight viruses and bacteria alone. Furthermore, our pharmaceutical research has not kept pace with the development of pathogenic bacteria and viruses, which is why we face today's situation. I think this is the first issue we should consider.
This is my viewpoint. Friends with an interest are welcome to study it together.
Author -- Blog Old Farmer, Biogas Researcher
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This forces us to think deeply: just a few decades ago, how could there have been so many infectious diseases? Back then, pigs ate nothing but bran, vegetables and swill, and lived in filthy water pens, yet they hardly ever got sick. Now pigs eat cornmeal, soybean cake and vitamins, live in high-grade pig houses, and get injections and disinfection every day -- living better than some people -- yet they catch every disease, and once sick, they cannot be cured. Living and eating better, yet getting sick; soaking in stinking water pits, eating bran and vegetables, drinking filthy water, yet staying healthy. What does this tell us? Is it not worth pondering?
I believe all of this is caused by us humans destroying the environment and altering the ecological food chain. Using anti-inflammatory drugs, bactericides and disinfectants every day may kill pathogenic bacteria, but it also kills all the beneficial bacteria, leaving the pathogenic bacteria without natural enemies -- which is exactly what allows them to run rampant and destroy pig farms.
This is the same as the situation a few years ago when rat poison was sold everywhere. Back then, even in the crop fields in the wild, rats were everywhere, eating the seeds just planted. Later, when rat poison was no longer available, there were actually fewer rats -- in some places there were none at all -- because there were more cats, the natural enemies of rats. Everything in nature has a food chain. Cats eating rats is a food chain. Pigs eating excrement and waste, and the bacteria in the waste competing against the pathogenic bacteria in pigs -- that is also a food chain. When you destroy the food chain, the food chain between putrefactive bacteria and pathogenic bacteria becomes unbalanced. Once viruses and bacteria lose their natural enemies that compete against them, relying on our drugs alone is not enough -- that is why they cause massive harm to pigs.
The nature of pigs is to live in an environment of waste. The beneficial bacteria in the waste coexist harmoniously with pigs, and the pigs and beneficial bacteria together compete against pathogenic bacteria. We changed the living environment of pigs, so the pigs' good friends -- the beneficial bacteria -- are gone, and the pigs cannot fight viruses and bacteria alone. Furthermore, our pharmaceutical research has not kept pace with the development of pathogenic bacteria and viruses, which is why we face today's situation. I think this is the first issue we should consider.
This is my viewpoint. Friends with an interest are welcome to study it together.
Author -- Blog Old Farmer, Biogas Researcher
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Great, thumbs up