The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering a potential plan to vaccinate poultry against bird flu for the first time that includes evaluating how it would affect exports, the agency told Reuters this week.
The actions advance the government’s assessment of a vaccine after the USDA received proposals on usage from associations representing egg and turkey producers whose farms have been devastated by the virus. Nearly 175 million chickens, turkeys and other birds have been culled in attempts to contain outbreaks since 2022 in the nation’s worst animal-health emergency.
The USDA pledged to spend up to $100 million on research into vaccines and other therapies to combat bird flu after prices spiked.
So chickens get vaxxed by the gov’t but not Americans.
Riiiight.
Plus, USA is pissed that EU and UK don’t really want to import USA chicken due to health reasons. Been an issue for awhile.
Well yeah. Those chickens are owned by a corporation and are a tangibile capital asset in need of protection.
When chickens are better informed than your citizens
Ughh. Just bathe the chickens in sewage to strengthen their immune systems. How is this even a consideration?!
The ol’ RFK Jr. strategy, eh?
💯
I guess 4 people took me seriously. 🤷♂️
*Someone’s *going to get replaced with a swivel-eyed anti-vaxx crank.
Down with chicks up with chickpeas
Now now salmonella like the rest of the civilized world
Can this actually happen in the current political environment? I see some bureaucrats making plans and trying to use momentum from other years to make it happen ; I don’t see higher level arses talking about it much.
