Posted on 08/30/2020 12:14:06 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The Australian state of Victoria has had to euthanize huge numbers of poultry, among them thousands of baby chicks, in a bid to stem the spread of the bird influenza.
Choosing between bad and worse, poultry farmers in Victoria have decimated their livestock, with a whopping 400,000 turkeys, chickens, and emus (2,000 babies too) being killed out of fear they could be a great risk of transmitting the contagion.
The Victorian Farmers Federation Egg Group said that the loss would be devastating for both large and small producers “not just emotionally but financially as well.”
Australia’s Agriculture Minister David Littleproud responded with sympathy to the news, assuring that the government understands “the impact of the difficult decisions that need to be made.”
Meanwhile, at least eight countries have temporarily banned the import of Victorian poultry products as the state’s outbreak of bird flu continues.
And if you take into account the mysterious flesh-eating bacteria that is currently sweeping across the same Victoria, I gess the state will become a no man’s land in a few months:
The dramatic campaign comes after avian influenza – otherwise known as bird flu or avian flu – was first discovered at an emu farm and an egg farm in Victoria in late-July. Authorities have placed the facility in quarantine, while issuing advisories to local farmers.
Infected birds have since been found in six poultry farms across Victoria.
Agriculture Victoria said three different strains of differing severity have been detected, which meant that the outbreaks were not all connected.
Bird flu is a contagious disease that predominantly affects chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, quail, pheasants, and ostriches. While there are lots of types of contagion, the virus strains are destroyed by cooking.
Some of them, however, are dangerous to humans, most notably the H5N1 strain, which can infect humans. The reported mortality rate is around 60%, the World Health Organization believes. The biggest risk to humans stems from close contact with infected birds. This means farmers mucking out and handling poultry are more likely to catch it than others.
This appears to be the second outbreak affecting Australia after Corona.
PREPARE, PREPARE, PREPARE.......
This sounds very similar to what Cuomo did in NY.
On the particular strain...
http://outbreaknewstoday.com/australia-avian-influenza-h7n7-in-victoria-67442/
From 2013 and guess where...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/21/new-h7n7-bird-flu-strain-discovered-china
China?
H5N1
400,000 chickens, turkeys and emus euthanized as bird flu spreads in Australia
Liberty Mutual protests strongly and Doug is heart broken.
What a fowl thing to do
Cheap chicken. Kungflu chicken for dinner!
I quit eating meat 30 years ago , but I don’t have any problem with people that do eat meat
I do think it is obvious , however , that eating sentient beings ( with eyes legs a (semi-) conscious conscience ; giving live birth to young. Sometimes let’s. etc ).
is much different karmically
than eating plants , legumes, nuts , seeds. And roots. And algae
Again no judgment here !!!!
the human being is an omnivore !! Look at our teeth. !!
and yours truly here. - i at least a couple cows ( according to my kids ) worth of cheese steaks - steak Stromboli’s. And roast beef au jus.
before 1987
Will change my mind was ( John Robbins book diet for a new America )
but more so ,as I walked into a Chinese restaurant in Berkeley as a freshman , and they had 200 menu items - and there was no meat
and they had every kind of fake meat you could imagine ! And they tasted BETTER THAN MEAT ).
it blew my mind
Then I learned to cook
There’s about 12 different kinds of meat you can eat
And there’s like 8 to 10,000 different kinds of plants vegetables nuts fruits etc. you can eat
Cheers
Truth over power
Hopefully one of the emu casualties in Lemu the Emu from those stupid Liberty Mutual commercials.
Well, how are the steaks doing? Please don’t kill our steaks!
Cuomo sent coronavirus positive patients into nursing homes to stop the spread in the same way. Kill the people that might spread it.
EMU’S? EMU’S??!!!
OH NO NOT EMU’S!!
Who will help the insurance guy?
I think Limu Emu is okay. It's Doug who should be euthanized.
I wonder if they can euthanize that annoying emu on the car insurance commercial
The CCP will take those birds off your hands.
Wonder if the avian flu is connected to the avian flu that is wiping out poultry in China. There is also a disease killing their hogs as well. They claimed it was being spread by mysterious drones.
Bird flu or Chinese virus?
“ I quit eating meat 30 years ago , but I don’t have any problem with people that do eat meat”
The difference between conservatives and liberals there. Need I say more?
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