A controversial proposal from U.S Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to let bird flu naturally spread through poultry farms is raising alarms among scientists – who say the move could be inhumane and dangerous.

  • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I can’t read this because fuck nyt, but wtf @

    I didn’t like the rebuttals in my link above. One of them says that the best thing for you/chickens is “to have a central authority decide to cull you minimizing for a balance of cost and your pain, instead of giving you the chance/choice of either surviving, or far more likely, suffering before death.” I would choose the 2nd option, but can only do so under central authority that has already decided what it prefers.

    Like what? Who is saying this to the person that is “you” in this scenario? Wtf? Absolute fucking non starter. I’m not choosing shit, fuck that we’re not doing that.

    • humanspiralEnglish
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      2 days ago

      The rebuttals for a pilot included that if you cull the whole flock, when signs of avian flu in part of the flock, then you are killing all of the chickens humanely instead of the large majority dying in pain from likely getting the flu. You are the chicken whose death is being decided from above.

      • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Holy fuck that’s grim. I didn’t pick up what you meant at first my bad but I get it now. You’re saying if this is their tactic for the birds, and “let 'er rip” is policy for covid for humans then it’s going to be somewhere between “many if not most folks have multiple nontraumatic brain injuries now and autoimmune conditions that are [as I understand it] equivalent to developing AIDS in much shorter time and more” and “we will forcibly cull the herd to protect the future of the project”.

        • humanspiralEnglish
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          2 days ago

          to be clear, I don’t like the argument that “culling chickens is best for the chickens, from an animal cruelty perspective”. I understand that culling chickens is best to not have chickens that survive or have no symptoms but still spread bird flu to other animals and humans. Be honest about “necessary” murders, is a pet peeve of mine.