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Farmers must kill 4.2M chickens after bird flu hits Iowa egg farm
- reify 2y agoThey wont go to waste They will grind them up and feed them to the cows and pigs for some extra protein. Nice one! Clever!
- Sontho 2y agoCows will consume chicken? really?
- Log_out_ 2y agoYes, turns out almost every creature on earth is an opportunistic carnivore. Dont ask me how they avoid botulism with their digestive system.
- b3ing 2y agoWe already feed them plastic trash - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp0NSIrbu3Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp0NSIrbu3Y
- bhhaskin 2y agoIsn't that how cows got infected with bird flu?
- lxgr 2y agoMaybe it's time to finally ban battery cage farming?
- guilhas 2y agoWhat is the point of killing the animals? Wouldn't it be better to quarantine them?
- positr0n 2y agoIt's harder to quarantine when other animals that can get infected can fly. It can spread via dust too. Animal farms of this size are effectively in a permanent state of quarantine anyway. Employees take chemical showers and change clothes to ingress and egress. Anyway, it's probably cheaper to start from scratch. Quarantine would mean spending millions to keep chickens alive you couldn't sell or do anything with and hope the flu eventually spreads through the flock and no samples come back positive AND it doesn't spread the entire time.
- fifilura 2y agoIf you only knew how many chicken are killed every day. For eating, but also - are you aware what happens to the male chicken of the egg-laying breeds?