Nemeski@lemm.ee to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 1 month agoU.S. egg industry sees record chicken deaths from bird flu outbreakwww.cbsnews.comvideomessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squaretree_frog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoWe call it factory farming, which is different than ranching. You pack thousands of chickens into a giant warehouse together. Vaccines don’t do much in an environment like that. And the federal government is being gutted by Nazis currently so that doesn’t help.
minus-squareLazylazycat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoYeah that’s bleak, although we do have factory farms here too. Perhaps it’s just the scale of it in the US.
minus-squareTikiporch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoI get that, but eggs aren’t a commodity yet non factory farmed egg prices are also soaring. This. Is. Greed.
We call it factory farming, which is different than ranching. You pack thousands of chickens into a giant warehouse together.
Vaccines don’t do much in an environment like that. And the federal government is being gutted by Nazis currently so that doesn’t help.
Yeah that’s bleak, although we do have factory farms here too. Perhaps it’s just the scale of it in the US.
I get that, but eggs aren’t a commodity yet non factory farmed egg prices are also soaring.
This. Is. Greed.