While several States of India roil under the latest outbreak of Avian Influenza, the strategy of mass culling of poultry birds, to contain the spread, is a knee-jerk reaction adopted by health authorities. This is not the first bird flu outbreak in India. Repeated outbreaks have been occurring since 2006 – all met with the same response: killing millions of birds to ‘contain’ the disease.
The government has refused to understand why India has become the home of Avian Influenza. Since there is no understanding, they refuse to change the policies that are causing this epidemic again and again. This is a disaster of our own making. Poultry farm workers, and billions of poultry birds, are disproportionately affected and the first victims of this disaster. Collateral damage includes health workers who act as first responders. And God knows how many people who eat the dead chickens, in the belief that they cannot get the disease.
Lebanon, N.H. – “Pants on Fire” awards are on their way from PETA to 10 companies that are guilty of humane washing that is, trying to deceive customers about their use and abuse of animals and Nellie’s Free Range Eggs is among them.
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New Partnership Brings Tree-Range® Chicken to Americans’ Doorsteps
January 26, 2021 GMT
NORTHFIELD, Minn., Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Blue Nest Beef and Regeneration Farms are proud to announce a new partnership that will change the way consumers think about chicken. Tree-Range Chicken® from Regeneration Farms is now available for purchase and delivery through Blue Nest Beef.
Tree-Range Chicken puts birds back where they belong. These slower-growth birds are raised in small flocks under a regenerative system that integrates trees and crops with poultry production.
“The natural habitat of chickens is more like a forest,” said Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, co-founder of Regeneration Farms. “Trees provide chickens protection from predators and have several other upsides. In turn, chickens amplify nutrient cycling while providing economic and ecological benefits.”
Still battling fallout of COVID-19 crisis, poultry industry dealt fresh blow by bird flu outbreak Although animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister Giriraj Singh said there have been no scientific reports on transmission of bird flu to humans and consumers should not be scared, prices and demand for poultry and eggs has fallen in several states. FP Staff January 12, 2021 21:14:50 IST Representational Image. Reuters
Already reeling from the impact of the novel coronavirus and the subsequent lockdowns, the bird flu outbreak comes as a fresh blow for the poultry industry.
At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the sales and prices of eggs and poultry had similarly dropped due to unsubstantiated rumours that linked chicken to the spread of the coronavirus
Updated Jan. 11, 2021 7:04 pm ET
The two largest U.S. chicken producers said they have reached deals with a group of poultry buyers to settle price-fixing claims.
Tyson Foods Inc., the biggest U.S. meat company by sales and the nationâs top chicken supplier, and Pilgrimâs Pride Corp., the second-largest U.S. poultry processor by sales, separately said Monday they struck agreements to help resolve a four-year legal battle over alleged collusion in the $65 billion chicken industry.
Restaurant chains, supermarket operators and food distributors have accused Tyson, Pilgrimâs and other major chicken companies of coordinating production and pricing to boost prices for staples like chicken breasts, tenders and wings. Chicken suppliers in court have pushed back, pointing to economic factors they said drove poultry prices.