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Mexico Kills 8 Million Chickens To Contain H7N3 Virus
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."
KFC imports 8 million chickens for their new "Clucker Bowl"
In a couple of years, chickens will make documentaries on history channel about how they killed 40 million chickens.
I'd like to have some gov't suit come by and tell us, "Choke your chickens."
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Just to make sure Cartman gets his daily dose of KFC.
Peta launches massive protest in the western region of Mexico.
This news is a month old. Unfortunately I was in Jalisco when it first broke out. Luckily the chickens I killed and ate were fine.
Always did suspect Mr. Holder had something against fowl.
I hope I'm not secretly a cibopath
"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."
"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.
Fifty watts per channel, baby cakes.
Oh... OH LAWD!
Time for GSK to make billions as governments clamour for their next proprietary "vaccinations".
"66 Million Chickens Vaccinated in Los Altos" sounds like the headline to a story about a Steve Wozniak prank. (The famous garage was in Los Altos)
slaughtered eight million chickens
This is supposed to be news for nerds, not news for geeks.
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.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I mean, having the word "virus" in the story won't make it appealing to the /. crowd unless the word "Microsoft" is also included.
Mr. Tweedy: What is it? Mrs. Tweedy: It's a pie machine, you idiot. Chickens go in, pies come out. Mr. Tweedy: Ooh, what kind of pies? Mrs. Tweedy: Apple. Mr. Tweedy: My favourite.
If you aren't part of the solution, then there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
...cluck-a-geddon.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
POLLOS.
I've killed more chickens than that....on Minecraft.
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 daily life, being completely unable to feel the suffering of others?
First off, there is no such thing as 'vaccination', (Google 'Dr Hadwen vaccination'), secondly, "The country's agriculture ministry had identified the diseased chickens during the vaccination process". Oh really? How, exactly? What "vaccination process" did they use? How did they identify the diseased chickens?
I think the reason that chickens might be getting ill is because of the disgusting, barbaric factory farming system, the system that most of the idiots on Slashdot couldn't care less about, after all, as long as YOU aren't suffering, that's all that matters, right?
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?
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
um...
oldhack: "Security is a waste of money until shit hits the fan. 5 minutes later, it becomes waste of money again. "
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.
Take the Red Pill.
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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.
hes everywhere hes everywhere ...oh and these better not find there way to canada , usa go nuts
quick, someone call the... pollo-ice
sag
Poor chickens! I would've eaten them!
Torben
I'd never guess Mexico would have that many chickens. o_0