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AllAfterIncinerators t1_j3omb78 wrote

That makes me so sad. What happened? When did we run out of chickens? Is The Rock responsible? That man eats a lot of birds.

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ZaftigFeline t1_j3pxey0 wrote

We culled 49 million chickens last year.

That's 49,000,000 chickens that were killed, and discarded.

We didn't eat their meat, they aren't laying eggs. They're just rotting in a landfill. Avian flu tore through the barns like nobody's business. Its why the cheap eggs are gone and the more expensive eggs are roughly the same price - because they had less loss due to better animal husbandry and reduced spread of disease.

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AllAfterIncinerators t1_j3qkkw3 wrote

Thank you for this information. I had no idea or Iā€™d forgotten. Now Iā€™m sad.

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