Bird flu is surging again on poultry farms. The US is normalizing the cruelest mass killing method to stop it.
We failed to prepare, and now animals are paying the price.
“Failure to prepare is not a justification for using a less humane method,” a source who has worked in the livestock industry for decades and spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the professional repercussions of criticizing industry practices told me. Peer countries like Canada and those in the EU, the source pointed out, are doing fine in their bird flu response without resorting to mass ventilation shutdown