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.
Friendly reminder that lab grown meat is 10-20 years away from being affordable and then we don’t have to deal with this shit happening every few months
Vertical farmed lettuce had an outbreak of ecoli three times in the past year. These people care about profits, not safety.
And you know where that E. coli comes from, right? It’s when farms put cattle too close to their lettuce (this is shockingly common) and the E. coli goes from the cattle shit and washes down to the irrigation system, which goes to the lettuce. My understanding is this still happens due to how the irrigation/water systems work for hydroponic stuff.
Not sure if you’re agreeing with me or you were trying to point out a flaw, but it’s still all caused by animal ag being shitty.
EColi lives everywhere. It’s in your house. Your bathroom. It’s literally in the root vegetables you eat. That’s why you boil them. It’s impossible to have a truly clean food product is my point.
But the example you cited is due to animals is my point. Which you don’t have in a lab
Your assumption is that animals contaminate. That is not the the case. It’s a naturally occurring thing that pretty much lives everywhere. Not exclusive to animals vs plants.
It literally is the case lol. It’s really not hard to google this
What about carrots, onions, etc?
You can also go vegan right now. Every person that goes vegan saves hundreds of animals a year.
Too many nut allergies. Unfortunately some of us won’t be able to go Vegan with the way the ingredient lists on a lot of Vegan options read.
It would be great.
there are tons of options. Im vegan and nut and soy free because my roommate is allergic to nuts and soy among other things.
We eat all kinds of beans and legumes and other sources of protein.
Asking for a dozen eggs for Christmas is starting to make more sense.
Sigh. What misery we inflict on the natural world.
Here we go again. They don’t learn.
Fuck
On a side note, I’m really glad we decided to get backyard chickens this year. Got 5 in the spring. They started laying in October. Got 74 eggs from October 4th through today.
Was it highly contagious too?
The answer is in the post
