> you drive down the highway in #Iowa.. you see them one after the other after the other. They’re often interspersed, #PoultryFactory next to a #HogFactory, which of course increases the chance for interspecies mingling of influenza virus. If we thought #SwineFlu was bad, we may get an avian swine flu hybrid from the close proximity of these factories. From the outside, they look fairly innocuous.
https://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/24/david_kirby_on_the_looming_threat
#chickens #pigs #AnimalFactory And people have to work here...

> The largest egg recall in US history is bringing renewed attention on the dangers of factory farming and on growing consolidation in the industries responsible for the food many Americans eat. Over half a billion eggs have been pulled off US shelves in the past two weeks following an outbreak of salmonella in the Midwest. Nearly 1,300 cases of people sickened by the eggs have been reported.
https://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/24/largest_egg_recall_in_us_history
#chickens #AnimalFactory #Salmonella #eggs

> .. authorities[1] appear to have learned.. lessons from 2015, when a bird flu outbreak resulted in what the US agriculture department calls “the largest poultry health disaster in US history”, with the slaughter of about 50 million chickens and turkeys.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/28/egg-factory-avian-flu-chickens-culled-workers-fired-iowa
#AnimalFactory #chickens #RembrandtEnterprises #GlenTaylor #Timberwolves #AvianFlu
[1] Still not learning to reform centralized large-scale organization for decentralized small-scale activity with resilience.