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That's bound to happen when you crowd animals together in unsanitary conditions especially when they become genetically similar through generations of breeding. Not much to do to avoid it besides ride out the waves and deal with the rising prices. Many speculate a similar fate at some point for the cavendish banana.
Nature tends to punish homogenity in the long run. My father gave up chicken because of the book "how not to die" .... These days we stick with beef and I'm looking into buying quarter cows locally rather than deal with industrial farming. Factory farms where one animal eats the poop of another are becoming popular in China especially.
Half the meat in my diet has been replaced with plant based. Found some delicious black bean burgers at Costco last month. Who knew they could be so good.
Bird flu flies all around the world with highly diverse, well-evolved flocks of migratory birds.
It is contact between these migrating flocks and commercial poultry operations that allows the disease into the hen house.
I expect free range chickens are disproportionately infected because they go where the wild birds go.
Avian flu doesn't just pose a threat to chickens raised for meat, although sick birds being consumed is a scary thought, but eagles are now coming down with avian flu as well.
One of the eagle cams I was viewing, two of the eaglets suffered a seizure and fell from their nest and died. After testing, it was found they tested positive for avian bird flu, this could be really devastating to our raptor population.
The nest was located in South Carolina called the Hilton Head Land Trust eagle nest. Both parents seem to be okay.
I didn't say it was in humans. I said that they would try something else. As many uneducated people as we have, telling them 'many birds are contracting bird flu' is enough to scare the crap out of these people. As it stands, believe it or not, a lot of people are already scared of birds...now, they have to deal with sick birds?
The last 2 years should have shown you that people will panic over anything.
No doubt this isn't being helped by free range chickens being a thing.
Ok I know I don't know everything but isn't being free range better? I though when they free range they are not stuck inside the coup trudging through mud and chicken crap. Close, confined living conditions I though is how it makes them sick or at least spreads it.
Maybe I'm wrong but I tend to think more room and fresh air with fresh organic feed makes for a healthier chicken and healthier eggs.
What am I missing?
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