It's definitely not ok to feed the ducks. Here's
what happens to wild animals when you feed them and why it's a really bad
idea...As science fiction movies and pandemic scares have taught us, diseases
can indeed pass from animals to people. But it goes the other way, too. In
fact, a recent study found that humans have been giving monkeys staph
infections in Africa -- by feeding them peanuts. Not cool, humans. In today's DNews
dispatch, Trace Dominguez looks at the Africa study and the ultimate wisdom of
that enduring admonition: "Please Don't Feed the Animals." A report
in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology found that particular
groups of green monkeys in The Gambia were contracting Staphylococcus aureus --
otherwise known as staph infection. Scientists were able to sleuth out the
situation and discovered that the trouble started in areas where humans were
encroaching on the monkeys' habitat. Many deadly diseases that afflict humans
were originally acquired through contact with animals. New research published
in ASM’s Applied and Environmental Microbiology shows that pathogens can also
jump the species barrier to move from humans to animals. The study, that will
publish July 29, shows that green monkeys in The Gambia acquired
Staphylococcus aureus from humans.
The study carried out in Bangul, Gambia was published on
July 29, the very day Uranus stationed direct. A chart for the mundane event
highlights a Saturn-Neptune square straddling the meridian with Uranus in hard
aspect to Saturn. The square between Saturn
and Neptune is asking us to balance a perceptual
conflict, when addressing moral questions. According to the Neptunian vision,
every life is equally worthy of loving
attention and compassionate assistance. From Neptune's perspective, we ought to
do whatever we can, in every moment, to immediately ease others' suffering. Should
we see somebody struggling, we lend them a hand, no questions asked or
judgments offered. Anything less is a symptom of a shut-down heart.
Neptune dissolves boundary and has no limits, and can be associated
with ungrounded ideologies, fantasies, and unattainable utopian visions. During
a Saturn-Neptune time, such beliefs can get called into question. In January 1964,
at the tail end of a Saturn-Neptune square cycle, the Surgeon General of the US
released its landmark report warning the public about the dangers of smoking,
piercing the illusion of years of successful manipulative ad campaigns by
cigarette companies.
Under Saturn’s influence a more responsible approach to our
inner landscape can clear up foggy, unclear behavior. Discerning Saturn energy
can help reveal delusions we’ve bought into, cutting through our mental haze to
reveal what’s real.
In this case here, Uranus in Aries, the combination we
associate with new ideas, in hard aspect to the Saturn-Neptune square is
correcting the traditional view that it
is good to feed wild animals.
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