Mexico Kills 8 Million Chickens To Contain H7N3 Virus 105
An anonymous reader writes "Mexico has so far slaughtered eight million chickens and vaccinated 66 million more in an effort to contain a bird flu outbreak in the west of the country, officials said Tuesday. The country's agriculture ministry had identified the diseased chickens during the vaccination process in the Los Altos region of Jalisco state, which led to the destruction of the H7N3-carrying birds."
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M-m-m-multi-kill!
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Hope they made plenty of fresh salsa for the feast.....
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Oh, I doubt if anyone would have handled any of it outside of containment, likely the bodies will be cremated, if they ain't already, aside from samples.
Of course there is no reason to fear that the Mexican govt wouldn't follow process.
Or the workers hauling all of it away.
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Why the fuss?
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There you go again wishing pestilence upon those you disagree with.
Who else? Certainly not pestilence with those that agree with you...
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What the fuck is this "Chick fil a" shit I keep hearing about recently? Is it supposed to be well known or something?
Shit is indeed well known.
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Only to rednecks in the southern states.
Must avoid obvious remark.
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It is known.
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Re:In unrelated news... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm just waiting for Jenny McCarthy to start complaining about how the other 66 million chickens will develop autism.
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KFC imports 8 million chickens for their new "Clucker Bowl"
When do you by stock, before or after the epidemic?
Without protected borders, people crossing into national boundaries,with dis-eased material is more like an invasion, than searching for the American dream. We are suffering from drought, flooding, storms and way too many undocumented aliens.Our schools mill out those who communicate electronically rather than face to face. hope the power doesn't go out.
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KFC imports 8 million chickens for their new "Clucker Bowl"
I believe KFC cuts off the chickens' heads to instantly kill them but I believe Mexico's method was even more effective: they made them drink the water :-P
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Re:Bird Shoah (Score:4, Funny)
These scapegoat crimes against chickens have to stop!
Some human child gets the sniffles? It was the chickens! Those evil chickens did it!
The pigs become contaminted with flu? Those dirty chickens are surley to blame!
First they came for the chickens, and nobody spoke out.
Then they came for the swine, and I said nothing.
Then they blamed the geese and waterfowl..
And then they blamed me for going on an international flight with a runny nose, and nobody was left to defend me!
When will this madness end!? Stop blaming the poor chickens!
Won't somebody think of the poor chickens!?
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Mod this +5 bawkkkkkkkk.
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add ice, music and banners on every surface and we call it the olympics!
Did they choke them? (Score:1)
I'd like to have some gov't suit come by and tell us, "Choke your chickens."
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I'd like to have some gov't suit come by and tell us, "Choke your chickens."
That's how flu kills chickens. Suddenly they can't breathe with mucus and red tape clogging their airway.
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And the world ended in one burning, feathered torrent of doom.
A sea of flaming feathers. We are Il prepared and Un ready for it.
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Actually, PETA is perfectly fine with killing animals [theatlantic.com], just so long as they are not used for any useful purpose afterwards.
I hope I'm not ... (Score:1)
A great disturbance in the force... (Score:5, Funny)
"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
Re:A great disturbance in the force... (Score:5, Funny)
Am I the only one who heard that in the voice of Gonzo [nocookie.net]?
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I could never work out precisely what he was, so I'm not sure if it was bestiality. No weirder than a frog and a pig (or the birds and the bees for that matter).
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% cat chicken-fajitas | bawk '{cluck "%s", $1}'
moo!
% _
yeah, our food supply is clucked alright.
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don't you mean clucked out in terror?
ummm... Thanks? (Score:2)
"Mexico has so far slaughtered eight million chickens and vaccinated 66 million more in an effort to contain a bird flu outbreak in the west of the country"
Guess there's not much to worry about when I return to Cancun for some much needed rest.
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Slaughtered. That's it? They should have played real life Angry Birds.
They kept flapping off course.
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More like real life Zelda [youtube.com].
Woz Prank? (Score:2)
Chickens slaughtered: geeks everywhere lament (Score:4, Funny)
slaughtered eight million chickens
This is supposed to be news for nerds, not news for geeks [merriam-webster.com].
What do you do with eight million dead chickens? (Score:2)
Turn them into a fuel source! No really its not a punch line. My apologies to PETA, but can you think of a better option?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090722110903.htm [sciencedaily.com]
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How many geeks actually do that thought? ;)
News for nerds? (Score:5, Funny)
Is this *really* a Slashdot story? (Score:1)
What is it? (Score:4, Funny)
Sounds like... (Score:2)
One word... (Score:1)
Minecraft (Score:1)
Slashdot sociopaths (Score:1)
As expected, numerous posts making fun of the deaths of these birds. I suppose they don't feel pain like you do - that'll be it. After all, you're so much more important than a few million chickens, aren't you. Just astounding.
Look at crap like this, from a supposed 'adult' presumably: "Unless they killed them with a particle accelerator or calculated the right number of chickens to vaccinate with a Beowulf cluster of Raspberry Pis, not interested."
Such empathy and humanity. How do you people function in da
Chickenicide (Score:2)
If 8 million humans were slaughtered, we would call it a Holocaust.
If 8 million chickens were slaughtered, we would call it......well nothing, we wouldn't even blink an eyelid at the thought.
Its amazing and disturbing how totally blasé we are at killing mammals.
They are only chickens, amiright?
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hello! anyone down there??
"no one here but us messican chickens."
see, its empty. told ya.
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One is sentient, the other is pretty decidedly not sentient. One is not-food (for almost all), the other is pretty decidedly food (for almost all). One has a total population of about 7 billion, one has a population birth rate of about 50 billion per year.
You don't complain about the bacterial holocaust that you wreak
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One is sentient, the other is pretty decidedly not sentient.
"Sentient" just means the ability to have sensations. Chickens are most definitely sentient. I believe you likely meant "self-aware".
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Yes I've seen live chickens. They're horrible creatures. They're one of the few species on the planet besides humans that will choose to randomly isolate one of their numbers and literally bully them to death. They do this practically from birth, given the chance. It's actually a JOB to run the chicken beak clipping machine specifically to clip off the tips of the beaks of baby chicks, because if you don't, they'll kill each other in droves.
No, I don't mind eating them. That's life. As an apex predato
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Yes I've seen live chickens. They're horrible creatures. They're one of the few species on the planet besides humans that will choose to randomly isolate one of their numbers and literally bully them to death. They do this practically from birth, given the chance. It's actually a JOB to run the chicken beak clipping machine specifically to clip off the tips of the beaks of baby chicks, because if you don't, they'll kill each other in droves.
If chickens are closely confined, they will indeed peck each other to death. But if given reasonable space, they will not. Chickens establish a "pecking order", and hens higher in the hierarchy will peck those lower, and expect them to retreat. Trouble happens when they are closely confined and there is no place to retreat to.
I raise my own chickens, and I have never had a bird pecked to death.
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I lived on a farm growing up and the neighbor down the road was a diary farmer who kept free range chickens. Truly free range, without even a fence. They had the run of the property and they were not a large flock. They pecked one of their number to death one summer. It took a while, but it happened. It does happen, even without close confinement. I'd be willing to believe it's much rarer without close confinement, but it's definitely still possible. I'm sure close observation would have shown it was
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Yes, when they are free they just peck their weakest brothers out of the protection of its mother. I'd say that without care it would die, but no chicken can live without care anyway.
Have you ever seen they preying? They torture their prey for hours. They are so dumb tht they can't kill it fast, so they eat the creature alife.
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If 8 million chickens were slaughtered, we would call it......well nothing, we wouldn't even blink an eyelid at the thought. Its amazing and disturbing how totally blasé we are at killing mammals.
You seem to have missed the fact that CHICKENS ARE NOT MAMMALS.
Your slashdot privileges have now been REVOKED.
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8 MILLION CHICKENS CHOKED! (Score:1)
um...
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What if it was in that big batch of Chick-Fil-A? (Score:2)
What if in the rush to fill all of those orders, some chicken was undercooked and had some of that virus lurking around in it when someone sank teeth into it? So we end up with a chicken virus in a vast number of those out for "Chick-Fil-A appreciation day", we get to call that God's wrath? Does God hate haters?
Irony? Hypothetical, but imagine if it happened.
Where did it originate? (Score:2)
I can't help but notice the summary and linked articles all neglect to inform us where the disease came from. The last time a major outbreak occurred in Mexico it was due to negligent and unsanitary conditions at a Smithfield farm, but tha information was quickly ignored and glossed over. Is it them again? This is The Jungle all over again. We should be looking a how these outbreaks happen in order to prevent them from happening again.
mass murder! (Score:1)
I'd never guess. (Score:1)