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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"
I'd like to have some gov't suit come by and tell us, "Choke your chickens."
I hope I'm not secretly a cibopath
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!?
"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.
"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.
Over 22 million chickens are killed each day in the U.S. for food. It is not uncommon to see one million birds in one building.
I object to power without constructive purpose. --Spock
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
And the world ended in one burning, feathered torrent of doom.
Actually, PETA is perfectly fine with killing animals, just so long as they are not used for any useful purpose afterwards.
...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.
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.
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
Anyone else think of the opening scene from "Zombieland" just now?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
add ice, music and banners on every surface and we call it the olympics!
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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.
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.
quick, someone call the... pollo-ice
sag
I'd never guess Mexico would have that many chickens. o_0
Mod this +5 bawkkkkkkkk.