Aflockalypse: The Debate Continues Over Mass Animal Deaths

The term Aflockalypse, a term referring to the mass animal die-offs occuring early in 2011, got started with conspiracy theorists and became a laughing matter with Saturday Night Live (see photo).

No laughing matter, however, is the fear and debate resulting from the seemingly unending reports of mass animal deaths occuring the world over since New Years Eve 2010.

Just yesterday, California reported about 100 birds died and were found near Highway 101 near the Wine Country region.

So far the public has been presented with many rational explanations for the mass deaths such as cold weather, movement of the earth's magnetic pole, blunt trauma, H1N1, disease and fireworks. While scientists are continuing to examine dead birds in the US, conspiracy theorists are busy tying loose ends together. Government testing, the end of times. Some really complex theories have tied the murder of John Wheeler in Delaware earlier this year to a WMD cover-up related to the animal deaths.

Fact is, over ninety mass animal deaths have been recorded over the past year and that's basically normal. The problem is that we're so tied to our cell phones and computers and the incoming news seems like something we've never heard before - because we've never heard it before!