Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Factory Farmed Poultry Give Flu to Wild Birds and then Wild Birds Give Flu to Finnish Chickens

It's pretty clear now that factory farming methods of poultry for live sale in Asia provides the perfect breeding ground for regular flu as well as avian flu. The use of untreated manure from those birds is used on fields that wild birds then feed from and the pandemic cycle is begun - yes?
clipped from www.yle.fi

Poultry Stays Indoors During Birds' Spring Migration



published Sun 02:57 PM,
updated Sun 08:26 PM



A hen coop with two hens peering out



Image: YLE





An outdoor ban on poultry comes into force on Sunday, which marks the start of
birds' spring migration. The ban, which lasts through the end of May, aims
to prevent contact between poultry and wild birds that may carry avian
influenza.

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