Agriculture officials say the presence of highly pathogenic avian flu in a flock of chickens has resulted in the death of nearly 48,000 birds at a north Alabama farm.

After confirming the presence of highly pathogenic avian flu in a flock of chickens, nearly 48,000 birds were killed at a north Alabama farm, state agriculture officials said.

A Marshall County commercial pullet farm — one that raises chicks from hatching until they are ready to produce eggs when they are moved to a laying barn — was placed under quarantine after samples were confirmed positive for HPAI, the Alabama Department of Agriculture & Industries announced Friday.

HPAI is highly contagious to birds but considered low risk to humans and the virus is not considered a threat to food safety, the department said.

  • ColeSloth
    74·
    1 year ago

    Yeah…no. not in this case. For one, chicken is way cheaper and quicker to grow than pork or beef, and especially in this particular case, these birds were raised for egg laying. You aren’t lab growing anything anytime soon that you can go buy for 97 cents a dozen.

      • ColeSloth
        1·
        1 year ago

        Mid missouri. There’s egg farms right around here so farm to grocery store is like a 30 minute drive. Got a few 18 packs on sale for 99 cents a piece like a month ago.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          And yet you still choose to murder her, mutilate her corpse, and eat her flesh.

          That’s fucked up dude. Chickens are friends, you don’t need to hurt them.

          • ColeSloth
            1·
            1 year ago

            I also had a pet mouse and a pet rabbit when I was a kid, but hundreds are killed every time a field gets plowed up for crops. The lettuce, corn, rice, and wheat you eat all caused large amounts of small animals and birds to die.

            At least when you eat meat you know it died quickly and got to grow up first. It wasn’t a group of half ran over baby rabbits out in a field.

            • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
              1·
              1 year ago

              The lettuce, corn, rice, and wheat you eat all caused large amounts of small animals and birds to die.

              Yes and we should reduce that too! Industrial agriculture has huge problems that needs to be addressed, that’s not an excuse to scoop up those baby rabbits and eat their corpses.

              Just as many animals die for your lettuce as for mine, but you then go on to kill even more animals to feed the animals that you also kill. You’re just increasing the amounts of death and suffering for no reason.

              At least when you eat meat you know it died quickly and got to grow up first.

              Grow up in what conditions?

              And then a person had to kill it. Do you know what that does to people? Numerous studies have found direct links between slaughter houses and substance abuse, domestic abuse, suicide, violent crime, higher rates of depression and anxiety, and PTSD.

              At least no one kills themselves because they drove a tractor over a rabbit family - chances are they never even notice.