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Flock culled after bird flu outbreak in France's foie gras region, Israel suffers a number of outbreaks across the country

Al Arabiya
Mon, 20 Dec 2021 12:30 UTC

An outbreak of bird flu has been detected in a duck farm in France's Landes region, the heart of foie gras production, local officials said Sunday.

"Clinical signs leave no doubt and it was decided to cull the flock" on Saturday, the day after the outbreak was identified, Marie-Helene Cazaubon, head of the Landes chamber of agriculture, told AFP.

Local authorities have established a three-kilometer (1.8-mile) protection zone and a 10-kilometre surveillance zone around the farm.

It is the second outbreak detected in the southwest since a major epidemic last year led to the culling of 2.5 million ducks and geese.

Early last month health authorities asked organic and open-air poultry raisers to confine their fowl as a measure to avoid contact with migratory birds that might carry the virus.

"We are in a migratory corridor through which birds fly from northern Europe... and we must be very vigilant," said Cazaubon, herself a duck farmer.

Cazaubon noted that most of the ducks and geese have already been slaughtered for their fatty liver, to be made into the famous foie gras pate popular during the holiday season.

The tradition runs deep in France, but it is controversial because the birds are force-fed in order to fatten their livers artificially.

About one-quarter of French foie gras comes from the Landes, which counts around 800 farms, mainly raising ducks.

Comment: The Sisat Daily reports on the outbreak in Israel:

The bird flu has spread in egg-laying hen coops in the village of Margaliot

Israel has detected an outbreak of the pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza at a chicken farm near the country's border with Lebanon, the state's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said in a statement.

The bird flu has spread in egg-laying hen coops in the village of Margaliot, Xinhua news agency quoted the statement as saying.

The flu was revealed after increased mortality of chickens in the farm and samplings examined in a lab.

The Ministry isolated the farm, which include 244,000 chickens, stopped egg marketing from it and conducted tests at other nearby coop farms.
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The coops in the area market about six million eggs a month, out of about 200 million eggs consumed every month in Israel.

H5N1 bird flu can also infect other animals, such as pigs, cats and tigers, and in rare cases humans as well.

The first symptoms of bird flu in humans are usually severe respiratory illness and fever

Cases of H5N1 bird flu have recently been discovered in coops in northern and southern Israel.
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On December 16, the Ministry reported dozens of wild cranes infected with H5N1, detected in the northeastern Hula Valley.

Bird flu outbreaks over the last few years have resulted in some countries suffering seriously heavy losses, but that's not the only pressure impacting the food supply, and that has resulted in the soaring price of food:

Also check out SOTT radio's: NewsReal: Is The Government Hyping Shortages? And is 'Vaccination Shedding' Really a Thing?

Reader Comments

Chicken Farmer · 2021-12-20T12:53:28Z

Support local farmers! Especially farms that free range on grass their animals.

ReRan ·

Chicken Farmer

· 2021-12-20T14:44:20Z

scrutinizer · 2021-12-20T14:49:07Z

Chicken Farmer Imagine being a farm animal in isra-hell, you think you gots hard times?

Then again it is very likely each was an authority of the tribe in lives past - karma's a bitch.

Winternights3 · 2021-12-20T13:28:08Z

When mankind has a moment to stop and reflect, it would seem that endless viruses are plaguing the World but are they.

Is it not a case of endless cycles of hysteria and ability to crush individuals and industries that drives the NWO to new heights.

Surely we've come to the point where this nonsense is becoming transparent for ALL to see.

Christmas in the UK is about to be ruined by Boris for the second time.

Boris is about to go down in history for what he truly is, USELESS.

LadyRad · 2021-12-20T13:31:27Z

The tradition runs deep in France, but it is controversial because the birds are force-fed in order to fatten their livers artificially.

And that’s why I feel zero sympathies for the “farmers” of those birds. And look at that pic below the article… that’s what misery looks like. What kind of beings treat other beings like that? As a species or a race we are a total failure. We did not protect the most vulnerable among us so now they’re coming for us, and we deserve every moment of it until we stop being hypocrites ourselves.

Winternights3 · 2021-12-20T13:48:06Z

LadyRad Steady.

farming is a industry, without it we'd starve.

Yes husbandry within the industry is seen to be wanting but our governments show a lack of interest in such matters?

I would correct you, I'm not a failure, I don't have a say in such matters but support those that do.

Mankind needs food.

What ever you eat is your choice but please don't give others a complex for what is required to feed us, rightly or wrongly

LadyRad · 2021-12-20T14:20:53Z

Winternights3

What ever you eat is your choice but please don't give others a complex for what is required to feed us, rightly or wrongly

Then why did you get triggered and felt the need to reply? Clearly you took it personally. Last time I checked no one’s survival is dependent on fat goose liver acquired though torture and abuse. The fact that we still have such “industries” says everything about us as a human race.

life · 2021-12-20T14:32:46Z

LadyRad

What kind of beings treat other beings like that?

the "leaders" of governments and large clubs, some members in the church, royalty, nato, ginormous pharma, agra, mil, tech corps etc etc.

in short, those who lean toward the service to self polarity.

most birds, sold commercially, are not raised by farmers per se but rather industrial operations on a very large scale.

what's the difference you might ask ? farmers give a shit. farmers feel for their animals as a living creature and not as a number, farmers know their lively hood depends on their relationship with mother earth and all the critters that walk on and in it.

a farmer, LadyRad, can walk out into pasture and have whatever creature, cow, sheep, goose, whatever - not run away in fear and more than likely the opposite happens - they make their way over to the farmer.

there is nothing quite like getting up before sunrise, getting their feed and water ready, going into the field or the yard, opening the barn door and be greeted by the creatures that look to you for life.

As a species or a race we are a total failure.

maybe, maybe not - as a specie we are given choices; we learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others, we can tune into ourselves and understand the feelings of others and tune into others to understand how we can improve ourselves.

lessons LadyRad, that's all there is. *

*borrowed from .... some of you know who

cheers

Winternights3 · 2021-12-20T14:43:27Z

LadyRad "says everything about us as a human race", nope, its your party so enjoy it.

This is a platform of discussion, you post, others reply.

Please try not tarnish everyone with your brush, that said, have a lovely Christmas.

life · 2021-12-20T14:57:34Z

Winternights3

This is a platform of discussion, you post, others reply.

love how "to the point" you are

LadyRad sometimes we gotta roll with it, give and take, or it makes us retarded and cynical ... just look at how RC and i duke it out and then buy one another a beer afterward 😊

LadyRad · 2021-12-20T15:41:36Z

life I don’t take anything personally from online strangers on SOTT or anywhere else. With all due respect to everyone. Same as everyone else, I’m entitled to my own opinions and don’t need to be “educated” about them by anyone. Have any of you seen me here criticizing other people’s comments? Nope. And that’s that. Happy holidays!!

Chicken Farmer · 2021-12-20T16:14:20Z

Winternights3 I agree to a point that we need industrialized farming. There are many people who simply can't grow their own food; such as people in apartments, the elderly, or the sick. But, what I think the modern world can improve on is instead of a yard full of grass, grow some veggies, put some fruit trees in, and have some back yard chickens. Even in the city, people can and should have chickens. They don't smell if the coop is vented properly and the bedding is composted regularly. You don't need roosters for eggs, but yes the hens can get a bit noisy, but I can assure you the neighbors dog is a lot louder. If the schools taught a simple gardening class with lessons on preserving and canning, we would be less dependent on factory farms.

Not to brag or boast but at our old house we had a small city lot, we had 3 fruit trees, 30 foot row of raspberries, which gave us 10 gallons of berries that we froze every year, a 20x20 patch of strawberries, which gave us 15 gallons of berries annually. We had a garden that was 30x15, that gave us veggies for fall and winter with freezing and canning. We also had 5 backyard chickens, we never had a smell. We also maintained an area of grass where our kids had a swing set and some play space. That being said, it reduced our dependence on factory farms by a certain percentage. Now imagine if even half of the population did this.

life · 2021-12-20T19:01:00Z

LadyRad

i ought to have added a disclaimer as not all farmers give a shit, i know some who are absolute dick heads.

i enjoy reading your opinions too by the way, and wasn't trying to edumacate you on nuthin.

cheers

Buffalo_Ken · 2021-12-20T19:15:18Z

Chicken Farmer - thanks to my youngest daughter and to the fact that my wife and I raised our children with open minds, or at least we tried to do this, we had chickens in the back yard. In fact, initially we had chickens that my daughter grew from eggs. The eggs hatched and sure enough there was a rooster in the batch. We took the rooster to another place, and who knows what he accomplished. As for the chickens we kept them around and they were a nice addition to the backyard except I was often the one who had to tend to them. Eventually, we gave those chickens away, but then we had 3 ducks. The eggs the ducks laid were not the same as the chickens, and our neighbors across the street were happy to pay $5 a dozen for those duck eggs. One of the ducks, Jolene I think her name was, injured herself and it was only a matter of time until one of the many hawks flying overhead realized there was an injured duck on the property - I won't go into the details of this, but I found Jolene's feathers after the hawk got most of the meat from her. For the two ducks remaining we eventually decided to take them to a friend's place - he owns a campground in South Carolina - where a full-fledged pond was available. That left two ducks and both of them had white feathers. Story I been told is it ain't easy being a female duck on the pond.....so I think one of them got her life effed out of her, but the other one survived, and then I was told there are many white duckling on the pond.

~

In my new yards in Virginia, where the sunshine is plentiful and the farmers market is just down the sidewalk about a 2 minute walk -- if that -- is where I plan on taking some veggies and what-not that I grow in my own yard using my own hands and fingers in the soil and the labor of my soul, and I plan on selling these goods in a booth fairly acquired. I intend on offering several products of value and the beauty for me is the goods will be just about as local as possible. Super fresh and healthy and reliable is what I want the product I offer in my booth to be. Of course, amongst the products, will be my ace in the hole - "Ken's Hot Peppa Spray" - multifunctional and from the land. You buy something from me, then I stand by my goods.

~

I don't think there is much money to be made in eggs this way and like many things the best idea is to just grow them for those living in the home. If we all did this, then more healthy living could commence and I think that is the future. The future depends on local commerce and local growing and more self reliance than what some are accustomed to these days of ignominy . As a Chicken Farmer , I'm sure you know this sentiment is not "directed" at you - I'm just saying what I think. I'm typing it to be all literal.

~

Peace, BK

InfoWithJo · 2021-12-20T19:41:35Z

Buffalo_Ken Did you just love to Virginia? Ack... I’ve lost my closest like-minded guy...

Buffalo_Ken · 2021-12-20T19:47:07Z

InfoWithJo - not sure what you are getting at. I do love Virginia - I hope you don't have a problem with that.

Going to see the older G later today for some gaming and I'm gonna find out more about you InfoWithJo - you know all about me if you want to, and that is your choice obviously. Still, I'm sure we met once, so why not again?

Ken

Chicken Farmer · 2021-12-20T20:35:22Z

Buffalo_Ken

As a ~~Chicken Farmer~~ , I'm sure you know this sentiment is not "directed" at you - I'm just saying what I think

I should clarify, I'm not a "chicken farmer" I am a guy with a lot of chickens, who sells to family and friends and friends of friends... haha. Just a part time one.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-12-20T22:47:44Z

Buffalo_Ken I think she meant to type 'move'.

Spur infra: I LIKE your idea of Ivermectin for chickens! However, we've never had them and I don't know about it but it kinda makes sense.

RC

life · 2021-12-20T23:47:22Z

Chicken Farmer

I am a guy with a lot of chickens

guy raises chickens, guy sells chickens to friends & family... and says he's no chicken farmer... uh huh, ok...

you're a [Link]

Winternights3 · 2021-12-21T03:36:17Z

Chicken Farmer I'm in total agreement in respect of promoting self sufficiency but alas the system is against us.

Folk where I live had to get rid of their chickens, why? Council had report's of noise, most probably by those who blast their music out until 3 O'clock in the morning.

It took a friend of mine, 5 month's in which to secure a greenhouse, not to mention how the price had massively increased too.

Trying to secure seeds and compost this Spring time just gone, was incredibly difficult.

When new housing developments are erected, each home has no footprint and allotments are as rare as hens teeth.

So, I'm with you 100%, If folk can they should have a go, life is all the more richer for the experience.

Buffalo_Ken · 2021-12-21T03:44:59Z

Chicken Farmer - strictly speaking a farmer grows crops and a rancher has cattle (or equivalent). A shepherd tends sheep and pig keeper fosters swine. I'm not sure what somebody who has chickens is called, but probably not a "chicken farmer". So thanks for the update provided and I think it is great you have a lot of chickens and that you offer the eggs up to family and friends. We did the same thing when we had our birds in the backyard and frankly there is no good reason why everyone should not be able to do that because think about all the free eggs it would entail. Not to mention chicken soup. Nowadays we can't even eat the factory chicken eggs - they are not the same.

~

A dark evening is upon us as I type this - darkest time of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

Happy Solstice to you and your kin. May the evening be uneventful as well as the rest of the CY 2021 - we all could use a break from the angst.

Peace, BK

Buffalo_Ken · 2021-12-21T03:56:37Z

InfoWithJo - Virginia ain't far away, and I'm still in Charlotte as well. I plan on holding onto our place here - too much blood, sweat and tears. Have you ever been so connected with something that you feel without it you would no long be the same person? (So I inquired with the big G when we were at the table this evening regarding his brother's friends from a long time ago, but he gave me no info, so I still don't really know and it doesn't bother me because some mysteries are better unsolved).

In Virginia, at our place there, I feel closer to the land than I do here in NC, but in NC I feel closer to my home -- if that makes any sense. I wonder when the sun will rise next?

Sweet Dreams InfoWithJo -Ken

Winternights3 · 2021-12-21T03:57:28Z

Buffalo_Ken There's one thing I employ this time of year, candles or tealights.

There's something about a moving flame which helps break through the stillness of a Autumn's night, its as if your not alone in the room as the flickering flame dances peacefully to itself.

I have a select few in each room, they cast a comforting embrace where ever you go.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-12-21T04:30:37Z

Buffalo_Ken In the Odyssey, Odysseus' father hangs out with a good guy swineherd. RC

InfoWithJo · 2021-12-21T12:07:23Z

Buffalo_Ken Haha - I was that tall skinny girl that wore her father’s flannel shirts with the same pair of jeans every day. I rarely went to school, but when I did, I was on the smoking patio. Once, Joyce, G and I got busted out there for smoking a J. I later found out that everyone thought I was gay because I was really close friends with Joyce and I never had a boyfriend. We all went to the keg parties at the barn on Friday nights, but I was really shy and didn’t talk to many people while I was there.

life · 2021-12-21T14:38:04Z

life Chicken Farmer forgot to mention, we're a lot a like, whether you're raising 25 or like another guy i know raising 125000, you are feeding people; it's a balancing act trying to make the world a better place

cheers

what breed of velocichickens are you rearing anyway ?

Chicken Farmer · 2021-12-21T14:46:24Z

Buffalo_Ken Thank you, I do believe anything grown on a homestead or local farm tastes much better. Vine ripened fruit or veggies, or eggs still warm from being laid is a taste you can't beat. But, the most important thing for me is to have my children learn how to take care of themselves and their animals. Be less dependent on the system.

Blessings to you in the new year.

Chicken Farmer · 2021-12-21T14:50:28Z

life Fantastic, it's always a great day when I meet someone of similar interests and values. We have a mixed breed of Rhode Island Reds, Leghorns, Easter eggers, Sussex, Barred Rocks, ISA browns, and others that have been fostered to me.

life · 2021-12-21T15:04:54Z

Chicken Farmer hahahaha !!! waaaay cool !! easter eggers - i like that name !

something i learned this past summer, from my neighbour a half km down our road: he had poison ivy creeping around an outbuilding on the far side of his paddock; he fenced off around the shed with chicken wire, put several hens in and in no time at all they ate all the poison ivy !

Buffalo_Ken · 2021-12-21T15:20:44Z

Chicken Farmer - one type of chicken my daughter has is Silkies - [Link] This is the type I inquired to her about their value. Their eggs are teeny.....but they seem to have a sweet disposition and it is kind of funny watching them - kids might like to do this. She had two larger type birds that do real well with their egg laying. I think the bigger ones are Rhode Island birds, but I might be wrong about that. They are tan and frisky and like most chickens don't put up with too much shit....I mean BS.

Peace,

BK

InfoWithJo · 2021-12-21T15:47:21Z

Chicken Farmer I used to have Barred Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, and a bunch of what we called Banty Hens. These were small chickens with major attitude and they loved to sit on the eggs. We allowed them to hatch eggs for us once a year. (We had roosters also.)

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-12-21T17:26:17Z

InfoWithJo & ALL, This chicken discussion needs Speedz RC

Speedz · 2021-12-21T18:15:08Z

Rowan Cocoan I do love my feather babies. They are my companions, loves of my life. I recenty lost the most sweet girl and it ruined me. She was absolutely my baby. I had her since she was 4 days old and she was just over 5.5 years when she passed in my arms horribly. She is the hen in my avatar. She would always chest snuggle me when she woke up and before bed. As well as throughout the day. I was hers as much as she was mine. The love I had for her can't be matched. All my birds were in house birds. Now the only one left is her sister. It has gutted me to lose them all. As some know I have pretty advanced metastatic cancer. I been doing ok until I lost this girl. It seems my body gave up after her loss. It's been just over a month, almost 2 since losing her and what my body has done in that time is pretty extreme. I now will be lucky to make it to new years or past Jan.

But I have my birds as equals, pets but more than that. They took care of me through rough times. People in general fail to see the value past a buck or for food these guys have. They are far smarter, far more emotionally connected to life and their human companions than humans are willing to see. Without ANY training I have had hens alert me when my son was about to have a seizure, much more advanced warning than the best trained service dog. All my hens knew my health and state of mind before I was aware myself. Birds are way more special than anyone is willing to see for the most part. Their life is far more valuable than a single meal their death can provide.

I refuse to eat bird once I saw WHO they really were. You can't unsee what I have, and to kill them for dinner to me is like killing a family member for a similar result. Dare I say to me, even worse.

As spoken earlier, there are other ways to survive as a human species and even thrive that don;t involve killing or horrible factory farming. It is just that people over the last 200 years have become dumb, lazy and reliant on the system to the peril of this planet's life.

If someone has an egg producing farm and their hens end up looking like this link, they are doing it wrong and I despise them for it. This hen died a week after this video so lazy ass humans could have their cheap eggs....

[Link]

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-12-21T19:04:03Z

Speedz Thanks. Heartfelt story. Hang tough.

Oh, what do you think of Spur's idea about giving the birds Ivermectin?

RC

Speedz · 2021-12-21T19:22:20Z

Rowan Cocoan Ivermectin is commonly used for deworming them, so it is not unheard of already.

Rowan Cocoan ·

Speedz Thanks. RC

· 2021-12-21T19:31:14Z

Buffalo_Ken · 2021-12-21T19:59:54Z

Buffalo_Ken - I've learned on this thread of fine discussion that the Silkie hen, even if she is a small bird, might enjoy laying on the eggs of some of the other chickens in the coup, and seems to me this could be of value. While the other chickens are out galivanting around, the Silkies can put their fine puffed out feathers to good use. Win-win in my book.

~

Very kind of you Speedz to join the conversation and sorry for your loss.

~

BK

life · 2021-12-22T01:12:35Z

Rowan Cocoan thanks Speedz & Godspeed & health to you Speedz

Rowan Cocoan ·

life RC

· 2021-12-22T01:16:54Z

Chicken Farmer · 2021-12-22T13:40:37Z

Speedz Wow, stay strong! I pray you have a wonderful Christmas season. Also, I love to hear heartfelt chicken stories, or any "barnyard animal" stories like that. This assures me that treating the animals with respect for their life is the best way to do farming practices.

Speedz · 2021-12-23T18:01:01Z

Chicken Farmer Thank you chicken farmer, your words do resonate well. I love my birds and even birds I never met. I get burnt out trying to help some people with their birds that are sick. It is amazing what people do and are told to do when their birds are sick. Aside from factory farming, the lack of education for proper bird care and lack of chicken vets is horrifying considering what they go through as a result.

Buffalo_Ken · 2021-12-23T18:26:32Z

Speedz - hey I asked my daughter what her two big chickens actually were and they were not Rhode Islands. They were "Buff" something chickens.....dammit. So many chicken names I can't remember them all. Still - they are good birds and she is thinking of getting rid of her Silkies, but I advised her against that. In the end of course, it is her choice because them birds are in her backyard and not mine.

Ha, ha.

I like all birds just about. This is them:

[Link]
Buff Orpington to be more specific

[Link]

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-12-23T18:37:34Z

Buffalo_Ken Oh, I thought you were saying that they were hybrid chicken/buffalo.

Speedz For you, parrot v cat: [Link] Parrot Drama. [Link] Cranes escort gator: [Link]
RC

Speedz · 2021-12-23T18:47:53Z

Buffalo_Ken That is what my last 2 girls are/were. VERY sweet breed. Love them something fierce.

Rowan Cocoan · 2021-12-20T13:33:19Z

So, governments have learned nada from the culling of the minks?

Rather than force feeding the ducks, they ought to at least be getting them drunk - that too will fatten the liver.

R.C.

JTF Truth · 2021-12-20T16:55:00Z

This is how they treat any attempt at herd immunity, just cull the herd. Hmmm this sounds familiar.

ReRan ·

JTF Truth Yup.

· 2021-12-20T18:21:38Z

Spur · 2021-12-20T19:45:10Z

JTF Truth I wonder if anyone thought about giving the birds Ivermectin? It could be a lot cheaper than culling the birds - and there would be less impact on the food chain.

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