Here's an unfortunate ruling from Scotland, courtesy of Doug Powell at Kansas State University's Animal Network, an international agricultural food safety listserv. This is the link to the original story, although I cut-and-pasted the article in its entirety since I was having some problems getting the link to work at first:
News.Scotsman.com
08 October 2008
The High Court yesterday upheld the legality of new rules allowing chickens to be killed in their thousands by slow suffocation in the event of a widespread bird flu outbreak. A judge ruled that the government was entitled to use "ventilation shutdown" as a last resort.
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ventilation shutdown can be used as a "last resort?" - pretty nebulous language. Sounds like what the judge is really saying is "if killing them any other way is too much of a hassle."
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