"Federal officials are cracking down on poultry operations looking for taxpayer relief from bird flu losses and will now require a biosecurity audit before insuring birds against future avian influenza outbreaks.
The new requirement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is an effort to stamp out the nearly 3-year-old outbreak that has claimed 128 million birds nationwide. Infections continue in several places, driving up the cost of eggs and meat."
Comments
Displaying 0 of 1 comments
GhostOnTheHalfShell
In response to this post@bicmay
You know if we turned away from industrialized meat production, and sort of got agriculture back to a small scale multi crop farm operation where they bring in ducks or chickens to eat all the pests off a crop and fertilize it at the same time and also eat weeds like they do in Thailand, we’d probably have a lot less concern over birds raised for food or eggs.
Farmers would certainly need a lot less fertilizer and pesticides
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @bicmay that's crazy, it wouldn't make a ton of money for industrial ag companies 🙄
by Jennifer ;
Likes: 0
Replies: 1
Boosts: 0