Read a news article about a culling of 5.3 million chickens. Is avian flu like a death sentence for chickens? If not, why not isolate them until the virus passes?
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Because it’s much cheaper to just cull them and rear a new batch. Modern factory farms are insanely cost and time efficient so it costs less to cull them than to keep a bunch of chickens and get recuperated till they are healthy. Not to mention even if the chickens get better, chances are the farm now has a bunch of formerly ill chickens with not as much meat and fat and less optimal to sell.
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