UK considers requiring poultry owners to register birds for ‘public health’
The UK government last week announced plans to force poultry owners to register their birds with the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) so authorities can more easily track disease outbreaks and “carry out outbreak-related activities”.
Currently, only those with 50 or more birds must register their poultry, but the proposed regulation would apply to individuals who keep any birds at all for the production of meat or eggs.
As justification for the proposal — open for public comment until May 31st — the government cites the H5N1 bird flu outbreak, which is being used as a pretext by governments to implement One Health.
One Health is an approach which ties human health to climate change. The stated pretense of One Health claims that because pandemic diseases are zoonotic and spread from animals to humans, human health must be looked at in the context of animals and the environment or what is called the “human-animal-environment interface”.
Science journal The Lancet explained in January that One Health addresses the “most existential threats” such as “antimicrobial resistance, food and nutrition insecurity, and climate change.”
To achieve a One Health utopia, a greater emphasis must be placed on protecting the environment and reducing the “human pressure on the environment” which includes eating plants instead of animals.
“The EAT-Lancet Commission takes an equitable approach by recommending people move away from an animal-based diet to a plant-based one, which not only benefits human health, but also animal health and wellbeing,” said the article.
The Lancet emphasized that the impetus for this approach was COVID-19 which, having purportedly transferred from bats to humans, shows the need to avoid such “disease spillover” from animals. For this reason, healthcare must incorporate more environmental health organizations.
The One Health approach has been endorsed by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which praised the ideology’s focus on climate change:
We will have a better chance of suppressing infectious diseases only if we adopt what the WHO calls a One Health approach and integrate predictive modelling and surveillance used in both infectious disease control and climate change.
Earlier this month, globalist governments met with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva to negotiate a “Pandemic Accord” which will bind all countries to a single WHO-supervised approach to preventing and managing pandemics, which includes One Health.
“The Parties, recognizing that the majority of emerging infectious diseases and pandemics are caused by zoonotic pathogens, commit . . . to promote and implement a One Health approach that is coherent, integrated, coordinated and collaborative among all relevant actors, with the application of existing instruments and initiatives,” says the accord.
While it has been confirmed that the coronavirus was not a zoonotic disease, the WHO and other globalist governments still insist it was spread from bats to humans, laying the groundwork for One Health.
The WHO’s Pandemic Accord therefore requires governments to “address the drivers of the emergence and re-emergence of disease at the human-animal-environment interface, including but not limited to climate change, land use change, wildlife trade, desertification and antimicrobial resistance.”
The agreement reiterates elsewhere that countries must “commit to strengthen synergies with other existing relevant instruments that address the drivers of pandemics, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and increased risks at the human-animal-environment interface due to human activities.”
Governments are required to coordinate One Health–based activities with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), which together form the One Health Quadripartite.
One Health has already started making its way into US legislation. In December, Congress quietly passed the Advancing Emergency Preparedness Through One Health Act (HR 2061/S 681) which commissions the establishment of a One Health program. The heads of federal agencies such as the CDC, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense and others are ordered to submit a proposal for a One Health Framework to Congress within one year.
The Act says the first goal of the One Health Program is to prevent zoonotic diseases, which can only be done by focusing more on the environment and agriculture. The bill’s authors worry that zoonotic disease outbreaks may cause egg shortages which can in turn affect vaccine production.
“Public health preparedness depends on agriculture in a variety of ways,” reads the bill. “For example, a wide range of vaccines, including those for influenza, yellow fever, rabies, and measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), are primarily cultivated in poultry eggs. Egg shortages resulting from zoonotic disease outbreaks could impose serious risks to vaccine manufacturing efforts.
