I know a bit extra about this case.
I’m on the side of the government here.
There has been an investigation for years that stretches from north west arkansas to Mexico about genetically modified eggs that are being sold here (think gun running) that aren’t fit for human consumption.
This case involves hundreds of farms and many people in Mexico and in the southern states are getting sick and dying.
It’s hard to research this because big Ag is keeping a tight lid on it. That have to, or else market panic and thousands of people lose everything.
The task forces assigned to this are very good people doing good work. Give them room.
To destroy right?
No.
Don’t get me going on hogs and illegal meat markets!
The chicken is a big thing also, along with plant material.
Ok. Makes a little more sense, but how do you explaine 40 armed and fully kitted feds breaking down doors, killing live stock and keeping innocent men in their draws cuffed for two hours? Seems like two dudes in suits could handle something like this, without guns drawn and kicking down doors.
Some diseases can be passed from the hen to the chick in the eggs. Salmonella and Mycoplasmas are bacteria that can be passed this way. Some viruses can as well - Newcastle, avian encephalomalacia, and viral arthritis are a few examples of this.
is this the investigation into the avian flue that devastated the poultry industry and is the reason for 5 Doller a dozen eggs in the grocery store.
How are the GMO eggs making people sick and/or dying?
FWIW, I am against importing non-native species. We are dealing with a lot of invasive plants on our property and it’s a royal pain.
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.
GM eggs because they are from GM chickens?!?
Now hang on.
What do you mean “GMO eggs from Mexico are killing people in the south”?
Are these sold privately? Sold at Kroger? Should we southerners stop eating eggs?
Don’t drop a loaded statement like that and run.