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[peanuts]

hello
I'm a french girl and I make a cross curicular courseword in english. I have a poll to give to english people. To help me can you answer to this poll please?? thanks a lot

Poll

1) What type of newspapers or magazines do you read ?

2) What are the other means you use to get more information on current issues ?

3) Do you have a critical eye when you read the information, or do you believe the journalists ?

4) Do you look for more information about the given subject ? Where ?

5) Since out break of the avian flu, have you changed your consumption habits ?

6) At the moment, do you buy
- as much as chicken
- less chicken
- more chicken
Justify

7) Are you reassured by a safety label when you find it on a product containing chicken ?

8 ) The virus of the avian flu virus is destroyed after cooking or deep freezing.
Δ yes
Δ no

9) An avian influenza epidemic Δ can occur Δ cannot occur without the mutation of the virus.


10) Do you think the newspapers deals Δ not enough Δ enough Δ too much with this subject ?

Justify

11) Is it an important issue to you ?
Δ yes
Δ no

12) Do you think we should do something about the avian flu ?
Δ yes
Δ no

If your answer is yes, what should we do ?

[peanuts]

please nobody want to make this poll? it's very important for me !!

[KHF]

[admiral]

1) I don't often read newspapers.

2) focus-online.de

3) mostly I believe

4) I discuss it in Philosophy if I think it's interesting

5) No

6) As much as before, I think as long as you cook long enough, the flu will disappear

7) That's generally a lie

cooking yes, freezing no

9) don't know

10) Newspapers deal enough with the topic

11) no important issue

12) no, everybody know it anyway
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[peanuts]

thanks a lot !!
nobody else?

[Mitchy]

Hi. I'll try to answer the best I can =)
1)Newspaper: I regulary read two of them which are of serious content. (Can't say I'm interested in second-page beauties!)
Magazines: Monthly political ones.
2)Web sites. (indymedia, to be more particular)
3)It doesn't make sense without criticising, does it? :)
4)Ummm... Library, maybe.
5)A little bit.
6)Less than before. I just can't be sure.
7)Never trust "labels".
8)Freezing doesn't have an effect on the virus but cooking is effective.
9)Odds are it can.
10)Enough. They give out sufficient information on the subject.
11)Well, yes.
12)Don't have an idea.
Hope this can be of help.

[peanuts]

thanks a lot
nobody else??

[Bob S.]

1) What type of newspapers or magazines do you read ?
I used to subscribe to many news and science magazines and get 2 newspapers. But I never had time to read them. So now I�m down to just one monthly gaming magazine.

2) What are the other means you use to get more information on current issues?
TV news, internet news sites, news & talk radio.

3) Do you have a critical eye when you read the information, or do you believe the journalists ?
Most journalists are deceitful lying facktards with built-in biases, issues to push, and axes to grind. Take �em with a grain of salt.

4) Do you look for more information about the given subject ? Where ?
Internet mostly.

5) Since out break of the avian flu, have you changed your consumption habits ?
Nope.

6) At the moment, do you buy
- as much as chicken
- less chicken
- more chicken
Justify
As much. The average person is more at risk from salmonella poisoning than avian flu virus. But thorough cooking kills both.

7) Are you reassured by a safety label when you find it on a product containing chicken?
No. Cook it thoroughly anyway.

The virus of the avian flu virus is destroyed after cooking or deep freezing.
Δ yes
Δ no
Cooking yes, freezing no.

9) An avian influenza epidemic Δ can occur Δ cannot occur without the mutation of the virus.
Don�t know. But these things are mutating all the time anyway, so even if it cannot occur yet, a human pandemic is possible later.

10) Do you think the newspapers deals Δ not enough Δ enough Δ too much with this subject ?
Enough.
Justify
There are bigger fish to fry in my world. Bird flu is just one more scary story lurking out there among many.

11) Is it an important issue to you ?
Δ yes
Δ no
No.

12) Do you think we should do something about the avian flu ?
Δ yes
Δ no
Yes.
If your answer is yes, what should we do ?
Start by teaching proper safe animal handling methods to people in places where bird flu is most likely to strike.
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