The US is normalizing the cruelest mass killing method to stop bird flu

[Jirel]

3. Stop. Got a better proposal?

The hand wringing is foolish. Methods of killing flocks and that require human intervention (individual injection or others that require touching such as collecting groups for CO2 gassing) are too dangerous. Humans then SPREAD the virus by taking it in and out of the facilities, and can spread it to other species, including local wildlife and even potentially people. This ends the threat efficiently and is a mercy. Have you ever seen a bird with avian influenza? It’s horrible. The heating in there is no more terrible than what the disease is already doing to the chickens.

Do you propose to leave them suffering even longer, in your theoretical “more humane” method? High heat also destroys the virus, BTW.