Bird flu most often originates in Asia especially China where the soils are depleted of selenium. This is where the wild migratory birds of Asia feed on selenium deficient soils and plants about half of the year. Selenium is required for a strong immune system and so for 6 months these wild birds weaken their immune systems by nesting in this region and often contract mutated viral infections from the local bird populations. The local Chinese peoples who live close to the land and their domestic fowl and livestock are also feeding off the same selenium depleted soils of China all year. The local Chinese population and their animals are more severely depleted of selenium and at far greater risk of viral infections than the wild bird populations. So a great incubator of viral infections for mankind is born with wild birds intermingling with domestic local birds and man. This leads to a crossover of viral infections from the three weakened links in local ecology of man, domestic animals, and wild birds. Selenium is a common mineral which can be mined throughout the world. Soils in parts of China and many other areas of the world are severely deficient. To end this great incubator of viral diseases for men and Nature mankind needs only decide to do it. A simple selenium soil additive spread across areas where wild birds and water fowls nest and feed will break the chain of these viral transmissions to men from wild birds. Larger land areas might be sprayed by airplanes like crop dusting as the most economical way to end selenium deficient soils. Free selenium soil additives to the local Chinese farmers will strengthen the local Chinese populations and their livestock farther and again break two more links in the chain to human transmission. Finally other world populations which live and grow crops in selenium deficient soils can also be identified and given free selenium additives of this cheap mineral. In this way all viral infections from all animals and men will be dramatically reduced in the world's human and animal populations for many generations to come. Most all foods grown today needs to be supplemented with selenium and other micro nutrients because it has been depleted from farmlands from generations of use. We only provide and return 3 or 4 basic nutrients back into farmland soils as fertilizers but totally ignore the dozens of important micro nutrients necessary for truly healthful foods. Mankind is a child of the sea. The bloodstreams of mammals evolved when mammals first began walking upon land as a substitute for seawater. And so mammals evolved by developing a nutrient rich bloodstream to carry with them onto the land and the nearby seashores to live. In time mammals moved farther and farther inland to the interior of continents. But this evolution did not always go well with mammals as they moved farther and farther from the sea -- the cradle of their childhood. Today humans must learn to grow foods which are rich in the nutrients of the seas to survive and evolve to new levels. Most all crops grown today especially those grown far inland are severely deficient in the hundreds of micro nutrients of the sea. But this is easily fixed with dried kelp supplements and fish meals which can be dried and harvested from the sea for cropland fertilizers. It is theses micro nutrients which provides the strong and healthy immune systems of mankind. And it is these nutrients we must add to the croplands which we use for our human and animal foods. The farther inland mankind harvests foods from the seas the less nutrient rich it becomes. Lands close to the seas often gets some ocean water vapor and air with these micro nutrients in them. And cities of man by the seas have much healthier and vigorous populations because they eat the local foods of the seas and oceans. But in the next 100 years mankind will lose most all of our cities by the oceans and seas. Great hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, and storms will become the norm and all great seaports and ocean cities will be moved inland many miles to safety. Waters will rise slowly but surely and great areas of land will be lost to habitation and seashore cities. Will will need to bring the sea's rich nutrients inland with us to survive and be healthy. We will need to build cities underground for safety as deep as we build cities tall. And well will need to grow foods in cities and in lands surrounding cities instead of transporting them many miles. This is the future of mankind.

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Joseph Ante Graduate University of Indianapolis BA 1972, Head of the Life Science Institute Health Library, original organizer of first Earth Day in 1970 and local ZPG chapter in Indiana, Population and Environment Editor with Reflector at Indianapolis University, 12yr organic gardener with fruit, nuts, and berries, lifelong student of Out-of-Body spiritual techniques.