Posted on 02/15/2025 11:34:20 AM PST by dynachrome
Egg farmers are starting to worry that the fight against the avian flu is unwinnable.
Producers across the country are bleeding millions of dollars to invest in biosecurity efforts to rebuild their rapidly dying flocks — all while protecting humans from catching the deadly disease, according to a report.
“I call this virus a terrorist. And we are in a battle and losing, at the moment,” Greg Herbruck, the CEO of Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch in Michigan, told the San Antonio Express-News.
Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch — one of the largest egg producers in the nation — was first hit by the epidemic in April.
Farmers slaughtered the small few infected by the virus as part of the tried-and-true US Department of Agriculture process that helped end the 2014-15 bird flu outbreak.
But the flu continued to spread and ravage his flock — so much so that ultimately 6.5 million were sentenced to death, either from the virus or from euthanasia to stop the spread.
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That would be useless, as a prime transmission vector are migratory birds.
Factory farming is efficient, but also knocks out too many birds at one time. Spread out, smaller farms would create fire breaks against total annihilation.
What is worse for the flocks? The government reaction, or the virus?
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
Factory farming is efficient, but also knocks out too many birds at one time. Spread out, smaller farms would create fire breaks against total annihilation.
Eggzactly!
We get rid of family farms at our peril.
They want Soviet-Style collective farming.
That's no yoke.
I guess the human race COULD BE threatened by chicken eggs but I doubt it. This is likely a covid type fraud in it’s infant stages.
Are any other countries suffering from this mass infection and slaughter?
I will stop eating evgs
Who is “they”? Trump hashis own people at the FDA and USDA. How would those orgs still undermine Trump when he is their boss?
“They” being the people Trump is fighting, the Bill Gates and the WEF types.
Stop running the PCR for 40 cycles to generate false positives and everything will be fine.
Agree...they need to be spread out...and smaller farms....just like you said.
I’m not sure what you mean; but the virus apparently attacks all the systems of the bird’s body, and kills very quickly. You aren’t going to get many eggs out of an infected flock, ‘safe’ or not.
Valid point. Ironic.
I label the bureaucrats doing the following (”stamping out”) the terrorists. See post below
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4296693/posts?page=48#48
I question whether there really IS a bird flu. After WuFlu, I am suspicious. Could be this is just one more way to control the peeps, especially if prices will negatively impact Trump’s favorables.
Yet, the price of chicken itself is not astronomical. Last week, Americans consumed 1.5B chicken wings for the SB, so that’s 750M chickens. So why are eggs so expensive? Serious question, why are only the hens dyimg that lay eggs? Wouldn’t bird flu affect all chickens and thus all chicken prices?
How convenient that at this very moment we must kill all the chickens to save all the chickens.
If they are all going to die of the virus-du-jour anyway, why kill them?
Unless you have some other motive...
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