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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

IS BIRD FLU A TOOL OF THE GREEN AGENDA?

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Unlike COVID, the bird flu has one distinctly different feature that is threatening American food security. As nearly 100 million birds and counting have been culled, will governments use this tragic opportunity to push net zero goals?

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Bird Flu has an interesting other dynamic that a lot of people aren't talking about and that is our food supply.

0:07.0

Take a look at this.

0:08.0

All right.

0:09.0

Now to a story that impacts farming in Minnesota as well as what you buy at the grocery store.

0:13.6

As bird flu spreads in lower Michigan, poultry and cattle, farmers are becoming more concerned

0:19.3

about food supplies.

0:20.4

Millions of chickens are facing the chopping block after bird flu hits an Iowa farm.

0:25.0

The nation's top egg producer says more than 4 million chickens will be slaughtered after

0:30.0

bird flu was detected at a large egg farm. Some 23 million birds have been killed in Iowa since

0:35.4

2022.

0:36.4

Just to put in perspective, we've probably called in the United States alone between

0:41.4

90 and 100 million birds in the last year, year and a half due to age 5 and 1 flu.

0:48.0

The World Health Organization is investigating a man in Mexico who died of a type of bird flu known as H5N2.

0:56.7

Now three farm workers in the US have been infected mildly with that virus.

1:02.1

What is the level of concern right now about that potential? with that

1:05.0

potentially becoming a pandemic.

1:06.0

I'm really concerned because we're making the same mistakes today

1:10.0

that we made with COVID.

1:12.0

We should be testing every cow weekly you can do pooled PCR we have the

1:17.2

technology we could be pool testing every dairy worker I do believe that

1:22.1

there's onected cases in humans because we're once again

1:26.2

only tracking people with symptoms. U.S. is taking steps to develop or require vaccines

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