These aren’t genetically modified eggs or GMO chickens. These are heritage breed chickens. They are all the same species as any other chicken, just different breeds. They arent going to go wild and terrorize the country like hogs- raccoons will devour every chicken they can get. But, poultry can carry poultry disease, and another disease, and mosquitos can transmit it easily from one domestic flock to the next, and also to wild birds that cannot be vaccinated and have no resistance to a new disease or new form of an old disease.
That said, our native plants and animals are suffering from several plagues brought in by well meaning people and some started by fed and state governments as well.
My County extension service introduced a new yellow flowering groundcover from S. Africa years ago, and whoever owned this place decided to try it out. As a result there are now 2 or 3 acres of this crappy swallowing my woods and fields and who knows how many hundreds of acres all over this county alone being overwhelmed.
Native sassafras trees, once used to fight malaria, are being hit by some introduced disease now.
Florida’s citrus industry has been nearly wiped out by two different introduced diseases and insects. I lost almost every tree in my orchard except for a couple tangerines and a pummelo.
Sweetbay magnolia trees are being hit by some wilting disease recently introduced.
An avocado disease has been introduced.
Everyone remembers the American chestnut being wiped out - and the animals dependent on those to produce mast, like the now extinct passenger pigeons, got hit too.
Dutch Elm disease did a number on eastern forests.
The fungal species dependent on certain trees suffers and can go extinct with the trees, and take the life they support away, too.
Introduced Kudzu, Tree-of-Heaven, Japanese honeysuckle, ornamental pear, certain invasive rose species, water hyacinth, stinkweed, air potato, aquatic invasive plants and zebra mussels, etc., are screwing up millions upon millions of acres of forest and waterways.
Emerald ash borers, probably brought in on infested wooden pallets, are wiping out prime lumber trees. Globalism has a high cost.
Coupled with a pisspoor economy those pallets are being spread carelessly everywhere carrying who knows what by people struggling to make money, and we will see the results of whatever bugs they brought in eventually when they breed enough to get noticed.
And I suspect some of these economically damaging introductions may be by hostile competitors, and not just accidents.
As in my last post, a lot of the problem here is not science. It’s organized crime.
This farm could have been busted for using a trucking company or broker that is involved in other crimes.