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643 points throwaway5752 | 2 comments | 05 Feb 25 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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mcv ◴[05 Feb 25 16:59 UTC] No.42951481[source]▶
What's going on with eggs in the US? The whole world had high inflation after Covid, so that's not US-specific, but eggs tripling in price? That is extreme. I don't think my (Dutch, free-range organic) eggs went up more than 25%.
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barbarr ◴[05 Feb 25 17:04 UTC] No.42951595[source]▶
Bird flu, made worse by concentrated farming of chickens. Those operations are basically disease factories and some bird flus come from them.
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ars ◴[05 Feb 25 17:10 UTC] No.42951710[source]▶
That's actually not true.

Bird flu comes from wild birds, not factory farming. Chickens get it when wild birds land near them due to free range laws.

The solution (possibly temporary) is to confine the chickens in sealed buildings so they can't contact the wild birds.

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misantroop ◴[05 Feb 25 17:34 UTC] No.42952097[source]▶
And the reason why it spreads so well is still concentrated industrial farming.
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ars ◴[05 Feb 25 17:50 UTC] No.42952348{3}[source]▶
No, that's simply not true. It's being spread by wild birds, not concentrated farming.

I know people love to blame "big anything", but it's just not true here.

Here's a source:

https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/virus-transmission/avian-in-bir...

"Domesticated birds (chickens, turkeys, ducks, etc.) may become infected with avian influenza A viruses through direct contact with infected waterfowl or other infected poultry, or through contact with surfaces that have been contaminated with the viruses."

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1. miltonlost ◴[05 Feb 25 18:41 UTC] No.42953139{4}[source]▶
"Domesticated chickens may become infected by wild waterfowl or by other infected poultry", and other infected poultry includes domesticated chickens. Nowhere in that web page does it say that domesticated chickens cannot spread it to other domesticated chickens. Once a domesticated chicken becomes infected (however it became infected) in a massive concentrated area, it will spread that infection to other domesticated chickens. You're conflating "spreading across chicken farms by flight" with "spreading within chicken farms by already infected chickens" and saying the first is true so therefore the second can be.
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2. ars ◴[05 Feb 25 19:25 UTC] No.42953760[source]▶
I'm not conflating it. Spread with Avian flu means to other places. A single chicken in a farm means ALL chickens will get it. That's such a trivial thing, it's not even worth noting.

What matters is how does it spread.

I think what's confusing you is that there are diseases where a single infected animal does NOT mean all animals will get it, and in those cases the more concentrated the farm the higher percent of other animals will get it.

That exists. But it's not the case here. Here it's 100%, doesn't matter if it's a concentrated farm, or a pastoral farm with chickens walking in the house.