OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — When instances of fowl flu are discovered on poultry farms officers act rapidly to slaughter all of the birds in that flock even when it numbers within the millions, however animal welfare teams say their strategies are inhumane.
USDA officers defend their strategies as essentially the most humane choices out there beneath the circumstances. The objective is to kill all of the birds inside 24 hours to restrict the unfold of avian influenza and forestall them from struggling with the illness.
The strategies used to do this embody spraying birds with firefighting foam to lower off their air provide, piping carbon dioxide into their barns or in some instances shutting down a barn’s air flow system and permitting the temperature to elevate excessive sufficient to kill the birds inside.
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