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Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:It’s not “jumping” to cows. US ag industry is feeding chicken feces from infected birds to cows. No other country in the world allows this but USDA allows farmers to do whatever they want/whatever is cheapest for the farmers.
Then when the cows get infected the farmers will demand compensation if they have to kill the cows. 🙄
Share your source.
I keep seeing this on the internet but there’s never a source. My extended family milks over 20K cows a day and never heard of this.
Poultry litter is used as cattle feed, including dairy cattle (as a protein supplement), and treating through fermentation (like mixing with silage so it heats up) or other means is recommended, and it is also recommended not to feed to lactating cows. There's ag extension publications and other ag-associated publications that discuss it. So far apparently it is considered unlikely to be the route of transmission (USDA and FDA issued a joint statement referred to in a lot of media but haven't found the statement) and haven't heard anything about the particular herds involved being fed poultry litter. California prohibits the practice for dairy cattle, no federal restrictions. Not necessarily a bad thing.
They've instituted rules so milk or cattle have to be cleared for the virus to be shipped across state lines.
Nobody is being made to kill cattle.
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