On Tuesday, agriculture officials confirmed that the bird flu outbreak that has spread throughout the Midwest for months had reached Nebraska, making it the 16th state affected. “There is no food safety risk for consumers,” the Iowa Poultry Association has stated. “Chickens, turkeys and other poultry infected with bird flu will be destroyed and will not enter the food supply.”
Still, Iowa Governor Terry E. Branstad
declared a state of emergency on May 1 due to the avian influenza
outbreak. The virus may pose no risk to humans, but it is already having
an impact on prices at the grocery store. In some cases, shortages have
made it difficult for shoppers to buy eggs.
For now at least, the biggest impact of the
virus is on egg prices, because so many egg-producing hens have died or
had to be killed. In Iowa, the country’s leading egg producer, more than 26 million hens have been lost since the virus appeared several months ago.
Last I checked its inflation causing the grocery bill to rise not some BS bird flu that has been around for nearly 46 years...
Enlighten yourself its all about profits.... http://www.apfn.org/apfn/avian.htm
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