I’ve said it time and time again. I would rather give away (or waste) billions of dollars in weapons to a people fighting and dying for their own freedom, than to have 1 US Soldier die for an ungrateful people.
We just spent $2.26 trillion, 6500 American live and 20 years fighting 1 guy that we killed 10 years ago and the entire Afgan nation of 40 million ingrates.
Fuck them all, let them all fight for their own freedom.
Modern egg farms are vast warehouses for chickens holding millions of birds. Very efficient and they cut the cost of production, however one of the problems is the lack of genetic diversity in those densely packed facilities. Just like children who are not exposed to the natural environment at a young age are sickly adults, generations of those birds have been virtually cloned in antiseptic facilities for the sole purpose of egg production. When a pathogen enters one of those facilities, the whole group is doomed.
Anecdotal side note, this year has been a pretty good year for songbirds and I don’t see thousands of wild birds dying off.
I have a retirement hobby farm and have a few thousand random varieties on dirt. My flock is exposed to the “bird flu” daily with the starlings and sparrows. I only fear the fedgov discovering an outbreak at a neighbors flock within 6 miles and then coming in and murdering my flock.