Posted on 04/03/2024 10:48:46 AM PDT by dynachrome
The largest producer of fresh eggs in the U.S. said Tuesday it had temporarily halted production at a Texas plant after bird flu was found in chickens, and officials said the virus had also been detected at a poultry facility in Michigan.
In Texas, Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said in a statement that approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, about 3.6% of its total flock, were destroyed after the infection, avian influenza, was found at the facility in Parmer County, Texas.
The plant is on the Texas-New Mexico border in the Texas Panhandle about 85 miles southwest of Amarillo and about 370 miles northwest of Dallas.
"The Company continues to work closely with federal, state and local government officials and focused industry groups to mitigate the risk of future outbreaks and effectively manage the response," according to the statement. "Cal-Maine Foods is working to secure production from other facilities to minimize disruption to its customers."
The company said there is no known bird flu risk associated with eggs that are currently on the market and no eggs have been recalled. Eggs that are properly handled and cooked are safe to eat, according to the U.S.
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Safer this way.
I buy pasture raised eggs at Natural Grocer from a company that is in the western part of my state. Another local store has free-range eggs, but they are very expensive.
Several brands of pasture-raised eggs are available at almost every store. Buy them.
Forget “cage-free” eggs, chickens are raised in horrible, filthy conditions. Saw videos a few years ago.
This story cracks me up.
The bird flu comes from wild birds, not other chickens. If you have wild birds feeding with your flock, they pass the bird flu to your chickens.
https://www.doctorkiltz.com/kiltz-blog/animal-protein-vs-plant-protein/
When looking at the nutrients that these two food groups seemingly have in common, the animal-based versions are routinely more complete and come in formats that your body can use far more efficiently.
In fact, substituting whole animal products with plant foods can result in various nutrient deficiencies. Looking beyond the dogma, the science is clear: animal-based foods are significantly more nutrient-dense than plant-based alternatives.
While it’s commendable that people are trying to make conscious dietary choices, it is unfortunate and even dangerous that plant-based marketing schemes are obscuring the science-backed reality that animal foods are a superior source of nutrients, including vital proteins.
Living in the country around chickens and other stock animals -and being an all-organic food type, I can say this is not uncommon, or a reason to freak out, and it does not fit into a vegan conspiracy theory. I buy my free range chicken and eggs from a local source-a neighbor. But if you are uneasy about this-just buy free-range chicken and eggs that are available at farmers’ markets and small grocery stores just about everywhere, and not all that expensive...
Oh yeah, I buy my eggs at the farmers market. A lot of my produce and meat as well.
The farmers market is every Saturday here. I won’t make it this weekend because we are expecting *lots* of visitors and traffic. I planned ahead, knowing this. :)
There is a butcher shop and a Lowes market out here that sell grass fed chemical-free meat for a good price, as well as local produce, so I buy there. This area is a tourist place for people who like guest ranches-it is Spring, so we were already pretty booked up and now even the few Air B&Bs on this road are booked. But at least we won’t be putting up with the chichi types who are rude-most of this area is too out-of-the-way and has no luxury conveniences available for that. If you can’t rough it, you won’t like it here so go elsewhere...
Enough fraudulent PCR tests and we won’t have any food left in the country.
Combine this with all the fires at the chicken ranches over the past few years and it is not wonder that prices are going up.
Of course they did! Couple it with the cow farts and other livestock pollutants, we will be eating Soylent Green to stay alive.
RE: This is why we have our own hens. Only four of them.
Great idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONSh61_YXy4
Hot dog corporation executive:
You mean more than now?
US Dept. of Justice Missing Persons lists approximately 600,000 per year. 521,705 people were reported missing in 2021 however.
Oh, no worries. I don’t plan to go there.
I have roughed it, though. A few months living in a tent in a war zone probably qualifies as roughing it. Or the year of living in a tricked out shipping container with no indoor plumbing in that same war zone might also fit the bill, although I thought it was quite a luxury since I had it to myself and the ablution unit wasn’t that far of a walk. Oh, and it had A/C. 😏
Texas just had this strain of bird flu that’s infecting cattle herds in Texas as well jump from cow to human and that’s not good at all. So far they haven’t culled the cattle as it seems to be a mild infection in them. The troubling part is the species to species jumps. Some bird flus have a 80+% fatality rate in humans one of those makes the jump to a mammal species and then learns to jump to humans and then human to human will make covid look like a cakewalk. Imagine a world where 80% of any one infected dies and it’s airborne and as infectious as regular flu with a R0 of 2 or worse 3+ you couldn’t make a horror movie that bad.
Your pardon, please-I wasn’t referring to “you’ in my remarks-I was referring to the tourists whose idea of roughing it is when room service is 5 minutes late-we don’t get many of those out here, thankfully. And thank you for your service.
My hubby said that he was told in Nam about a bird colonel who was rumored to have A/C in his quarters-everyone wanted to know how and where he’d gotten that, but they only talked about it in whispers, when they were away from everyone who might blab. The best I’ve done roughing it is to live off grid...
According to the sources I found that did not have their hair on fire over this bird flu-bird flu sometimes does transmit that way-dairy cows, but it is rare, not deadly, etc. It does not appear to be a reason to slaughter dairy cattle, get a vaccine or two or three-or anything else drastic-here is a link to a calm, sensible source-
/medicalxpress.com/news/2024-04-texan-h5n1-bird-flu-cdc.html
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