By James Chaarani: There is use of mRNA vaccines in the livestock that we eat, Shayan Sharif, a professor at the University of Guelph's Ontario Veterinary College said. We need to be talking about it now for the sake of public transparency.
"This is very similar to public health communication failures that they had during the COVID-19 pandemic," Sharif told CBC News. "Part of it was the fact that there was very limited amounts of information shared with the public."
Sharif said that the benefits of mRNA vaccines in livestock over the traditional ones that are currently being used is that they're easier to make, can be made more quickly and are more lucrative for Big Pharma.
"I do actually think that this is a potential concern whether or not this concern would materialize in the form of some farmers, for example, declining to use mRNA vaccines for their animals, I think time will tell but there's certainly a potential for that," he said.
He believes that "it's really incumbent upon all of us, including us in academia, the government and so on, to really try to nip this in the bud and make sure that there is no myth around mRNA vaccines for livestock."
There haven't been studies on the side effects of humans eating animals that have been vaccinated with an mRNA vaccine, Sharif said.
"[The public] need to be educated because
there's the fear factor that could be introduced in the process because
of disinformation or misinformation and as a result of that public would
be disinformed and misinformed," he said.
Additional:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/P-9-2022-000303_EN.html
No comments:
Post a Comment