If a farmer wanted to save the survivors and run a test on his own to try to breed birds with HPAI immunity, gun-toting government agents prohibit him from doing so. The second part of the policy is also simple: find a vaccine to stop HPAI. The policy is clear and simple: kill everything that ever contacted the diseased birds. We pick the most robust specimens as genetic material to propagate, whether it’s plants, animals, or microbes.īut in its wisdom, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA-Usduh) has no interest in selecting, protecting, and then propagating the healthy survivors. We farmers have been doing that for millennia. The most fundamental principles of animal husbandry and breeding demand that farmers select for healthy immune systems. The policy of mass extermination without regard to immunity, without even researching why some birds flourish while all around are dying, is insane. To be sure, HPAI is and can be deadly, but it never kills everything. But in the cases of delayed extermination, a few birds appear immune to the disease. To be sure, most are exterminated prior to survivors being identified. In not a single flock have all the birds died from HPAI. If one chicken in a house of a million tests positive for HPAI, the government brings full law enforcement force to the farm to guarantee all live birds die. Very few of the birds killed are in pain or even symptomatically sick. In other words, it’s going to die and is in pain or an incurable condition. Euthanizing refers to putting an animal out of its misery. Using the word euthanized rather than the more proper word exterminated clouds the actual story.
The rest have been killed in a draconian sterilization protocol. In this latest HPAI outbreak, perhaps the most egregious departure from truth is the notion that the birds have died as a result of the disease and that euthanasia for survivors is the best and only option.įirst, of the nearly 60 million claimed deaths, perhaps no more than a couple million have actually died from HPAI. If thinking people learned only one thing from the covid pandemic, it was that official government narratives are politically slanted and often untrue. Are these cycles inevitable? Are the experts funneling information to the public more trustworthy than those who controlled press releases during 2020’s covid outbreak? A bit more than a decade ago it was 50 million.
Numbers change each day, but at the last count about 60 million chickens (mainly laying hens) and turkeys died in the last year. As the nation suffers through yet another High Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreak, questioning the orthodox narrative is more important than ever.Īt a time when people are screaming about overpopulation and the world’s inability to feed itself, surely we humans need to figure out how to reduce these kinds of losses.
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