Posted on 04/24/2024 3:04:49 PM PDT by CFW
Dairy cows cannot be moved between states without testing for the highly pathogenic avian influenza, U.S. officials announced on April 24.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a federal order that says “prior to interstate movement, dairy cattle are required to receive a negative test for Influenza A virus.” A strain of the highly pathogenic avian influenza A, H5N1, has been spreading across the country since first being detected in cows in March. The influenza is commonly known as the bird flu.
At this point, no beef cattle are known to have been infected with the virus.
The order, which takes effect on April 29, covers lactating dairy cattle.
Testing requirements for other dairy cows “will be based on scientific factors concerning the virus and its evolving risk profile,” the USDA said.
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Yep
“Another virus exported to here from Chicomland.”
And we’re to believe our crack USDA staff just happened upon it?
These people are vile.
52 percent fatality rate is nothing to mess around with. When this goes person to person the whole planet better pray and pray HARD it quickly drops to a normal 1% death rate or that book at the end of the Bible is going to be played out in real time.
“Through April 1, out of 889 cases across 23 countries, 463 resulted in death”
I've never heard of dairy cows visiting other states.
I would think a lot of cows transit between Minnesota,Iowa ,Illinois and Wisconsin to replenish herd sizes and to establish new dairy operations. Transit cross country to say Florida not so much but California has a huge dairy herd so does Texas those cows got to get there somehow. Trucks or ships is the way I wouldn’t imagine chartering a 747 freighter would be the cattle barons preferred transport method.
It wasn’t that long ago people would herd aka drive cattle over land trails to railroad heads from Texas to Kansas and beyond. Preston trail road in DFW is built along part of the real Preston trail. Same for Chisholm Trail rd in Round Rock Texas the road is built directly over the trail where it crosses bushy creek with the trail marker the “Round Rock” in the middle of the creek at the solid limestone fording site.
Thus the City of Round Rock is named after the Chisholm Trail round rock trail marker and that’s the classes bit of Texas history for the day :)
Avian flu is carried by wild birds that eat the same grain that cattle eat so when they land eat that grain feed then crap all over the feed the cow eats it and bang infected cattle no Qtard tinfoil needed this is also why it’s spreads so far and fast look at the migratory bird flyways over North America they almost all cross Texas and the Midwest into Mexico and Latin America.
Growers are feeding used “chicken litter” as a mixing base for feed lot cattle...chicken shit and sawdust or peanut hulls typically...our huge chicken ops locally dispose of chicken manure by trucking to milk producers and finishing lots. Disgusting, and seldom disclosed....
See my post 27...
See my post 27
Coprophagy, or feeding on manure, is not new in animal nutrition. For example, livestock feeding on a farm has frequently involved a system of beef cattle followed by hogs and subsequently chickens. Under such a programme the nutrition of the hogs and chickens is based on manure. The current interest in manure as a feedstuff is mostly due to the problem of waste disposal from intensive livestock and poultry operations. Apart from this problem it has been recognized that large amounts of nutrients are wasted. The re-use of manure is one way of creating edible protein from waste material which is often disposed of uneconomically and also creates a nuisance. The amount of excreta produced is considerable: a 2-kg hen produces 0.8 kg a week, a 650-kg cow 150 kg, an 80 kg pig 40 kg and a 45 kg pig 22 kg.
Wow I thought the USA outlawed cross species feeding years ago with the BSE scare. I’m so glad my family just let’s the cattle do cattle things on range land with range cubes and hay supplements in dry years or propane burnt paddle cactus pads. This is yet another reason I don’t eat on purpose feed lot beef.
The Asians have manure feed chains to an art form. It’s common in rural area’s for the human outhouse to be directly over either pig pens or fish ponds and chicken coups to also be over either. I have seen both setups in South East Asia. Hence is why never ever eat catfish from the Mekong Delta or fish ponds.
Manure is upwards of 50% single cell protein by dry mass it’s well known that beef manure is higher in protein than the intake feed because of the magic of the four stomachs making copious amounts of bacterial proteins. Still not a good reason to cross species it. Ferment it via digesters to methane and return the then pathogen free liquids to the fields closing the nutrient circle. Feeding it to animals that humans eat is purely for profits to reduce the cost of feed. The practice should be banned out right.
Must test cows before they cross the street, but thousands of random third world people can walk over the US border daily with no health screening, no ID, and no visible means of support. Makes perfect sense!
Are birds tested for cow flu?
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