Jeremy Clarkson: The bird flu crisis and why food prices must rise
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Bird Flu is bringing Britain's farmers to their knees. The disease has killed nearly a hundred million birds world wide - nearly 4 million of them in the UK - and it poses a serious threat to our food supply.
So today we're on a farm talking to a twitcher, a farmer and erm a motoring journalist. And it's all the same bloke. Jeremy Clarkson talks about the dearth of birds, the cost of feed and how hard it is to get pigs to make other pigs. We also hear from a poultry farmer who's had to slaughter thousands of his own birds after avian flu hit his farm -which has been in the family for generations.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.7 | We often bring you a lot of hardcore politics on the news agents, |
| 0:17.1 | and we bring you a lot of what's going on day to day in the big metropolitan urban centres. |
| 0:22.8 | But recently I was talking to somebody who said, you're actually missing the whole story. |
| 0:27.2 | The story isn't happening in the city right now. It's happening in our skies. It's happening |
| 0:31.5 | around the rest of the country. It's happening in the rural parts of this country where |
| 0:36.7 | there are no birds. |
| 0:37.9 | There's a massive problem with avian flu. |
| 0:41.5 | And so I listened and I thought maybe today we'll come and visit a farm and find a farmer. |
| 0:49.3 | Hello, farmer. |
| 0:50.4 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:52.2 | Do you recognise the voice of that farmer? |
| 0:54.4 | No, I didn't. I didn't at all. |
| 0:56.2 | No, wasn't he a motoring journalist once? |
| 0:58.7 | I can't remember. |
| 0:59.6 | He used to go very fast. |
| 1:00.9 | Anyway, now he does things with chickens. |
| 1:02.8 | And cows and pigs and otters and badgers. |
| 1:06.2 | No, I do things too badgers. |
| 1:07.5 | I'll do things too badgers. |
| 1:15.6 | Okay. things two badgers. I mean, there were 50 or 60 birds in here until two weeks ago. |
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