Kennedy Wants To Let Avian Flu Run Wild. What Could Go Wrong?
Kennedy Wants To Let Avian Flu Run Wild. What Could Go Wrong?
Instead of culling birds infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, farmers should just let it spread through flocks!
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of Health and Human Services, and Brooke Rollins, secretary of Agriculture, have floated the notion that instead of culling birds infected with the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, farmers should let it spread through flocks. The idea is that by doing this, farmers can "identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it," Kennedy told Fox News on March 11.
Ok, so where is this idea coming from ideologically? Are they trying to prove a point about their hands-off approach to COVID-19? Or is it just that they were always planning to do nothing, and they're trying to rationalize it?
This is the same tired anti-vax/eugenics rhetoric. Let the flu infect the whole flock and then just let the ones that survive continue to breed making the species stronger.
This is information coming from someone who has absolutely zero medical experience, but thinks that doctors have been looking at this whole thing wrong for the last century.
Probably cheap eggs is part of it. But yeah, the same type of dumbass was talking about getting everyone back to work - again, about the money and because they had a vision in their heads of 20-somethings all staying home and playing video games on the taxpayer dime, or not under the safe watchful eye of some mid-level manager in a cubicle farm or something. The work from home thing drove them crazzzzzzy(ier) - complaining about any sensible measures like social distancing, masks, and vaccines. The same type of dumbass was talking about how "everyone was going to get it" and that the "clot shot" was going to kill everyone and we should just all live our lives as normal.
I suspect a major part of the ideology is also the constant undercurrent in this country, and that's general anti-intellectualism and hatred of real expertise and the actual experts that have it. So we have lots of people "doing their own research", like Brainworms.
Probably cheap eggs is part of it.
Given that culling diseased flocks is a mechanism to prevent all farms from being decimated, egg prices will probably skyrocket.
Another Trump term, another pandemic in the making.
God I hate Republicans.
Millions of Americans will die.
Again
They really don't understand the structure of the poultry industry. The genetics are controlled by Tysons and Aviagen who breed around 90 to 99% of all chickens in the industry in the US (similarly high globally). Primarily the Cobb 500 and Ross 308 which are both fast growing. They do it this way because the industry wants their super fast growth at the expense of their health
Fast-growing chickens that make up almost all the industry are already known to be at a higher risk of illness and have a worse immune system. They have all kinds of other health issues from difficulty walking to hock burns
The methods of mass killing on disease detection are also quite cruel too I should add, but this administration don't seem to be too concerned about that. Look up ventilation shutdown and foam depopulation if you want more info on that
The methods of mass killing on disease detection are also quite cruel
The way these people treat humans... I doubt they care how they treat animals. I've seen enough of how the factory farming industry "cares" for animals to not want to see how they do mass cullings.
That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.
Man. Just when eggs got under $3/dozen.
Maybe they'll set it loose in the concentration camps
And create a reality tv show out of it.. winner gets citizenship /s
The price of eggs will go up.
It’s a combination of:
- Distrust of science, experts, and industry
- Belief that managing disease in any way is somehow interfering with God’s will
- Belief that keeping “weak” individuals (human or non-human) alive is a waste of resources or steers evolution down a dead end