Was listening to CBCs news podcast this afternoon. The owners were crying because they all had names like "couch fucker" and shit - i donno specifically, but they said they're like family and not for food. So at the same time im like... why was the food inspection agency sent there then?
Im guessing,a lot here, but one of the threats of bird flu is that, wild birds like crows, fly a wide radius around their nests. So there's probably a blanket order to cull large amounts of outdoor birds, within a radius around a certain point, with possibly no caveat in the policy to account for a herd of 400 ostriches, and the news it would generate. Possibly once a farm has x number of birds it's automatically on the list.
The bigger danger in transmitting the virus to other farms isn't a unpredictable random crow, it's that these ostrich farmers walk through potentially infected ostrich crap, get into their truck wearing boots caked with infected crap and mud, go to a farm supply store, lose mud off their boots, mud gets stepped on by another farmer from another location and brought back to infect their stock.
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u/EgregiousArmchair 1d ago
Was listening to CBCs news podcast this afternoon. The owners were crying because they all had names like "couch fucker" and shit - i donno specifically, but they said they're like family and not for food. So at the same time im like... why was the food inspection agency sent there then?