Manitoba/34,000 poulets gazés pour se faire la main...

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DÉGUEULASSE !!! CETTE TUERIE A ÉTÉ FAITE PAR L'AGENCE CANADIENNE D'INSPECTION DES ALIMENTS !!!!!!!!!



Monday, November 13th, 2006

34,000 chickens gassed in exercise


Mon Nov 13 2006

By Jen Skerritt


PANDEMIC control crews have finished routine checks at a rural Manitoba
farm to ensure a "mock" avian flu virus is destroyed.

On Nov. 3, 60 people from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
practised how they would contain and control an avian flu outbreak on an egg
farm just outside Landmark. The outbreak exercise -- the largest ever staged in
Western Canada --was held with the co-operation of the Manitoba Egg Producers
and Manitoba Agriculture.

Sandra Stephens, a disease control specialist with CFIA, said crews
continued to monitor the farm until the end of last week.

In the event of a real bird flu outbreak, crews would be required to check
whether the disease was successfully decomposing, Stephens said.

"We have to be careful to make sure that when we destroy the animals and
dispose of them we don't spread any disease," she said earlier last week.

Crews spent two days following guidelines on how to handle a bird flu
outbreak. Participants donned head-to-toe protective gear -- including masks,
goggles, disposable boots and gloves -- before going in to euthanize a flock of
34,000 chickens.

Stephens said the farmer volunteered his chickens for the exercise because
the birds were no longer going to be used as laying hens and were destined to be
euthanized anyway.

Crews sealed the chicken barn, shutting off and covering fans before
flooding the area with carbon dioxide.

Stephens said it took only about 20 minutes before all the chickens were
unconscious or dead.

Once the carbon dioxide was cleared out by the fans, crews removed the
carcasses from the barn using wheelbarrows, cardboard bins and fabric bags. They
were moved to a manure shed next to the barn, where they were left to decompose
as compost inside straw and manure.

Stephens said compost is a natural way to destroy the virus because it
reaches a temperature between 45 and 50 C as it breaks down.

"If you can raise the temperature high enough for long enough, viruses
become inactive," she said. It usually takes between seven and 10 days for a
virus to compost.

Overall, Stephens said the exercise was successful at containing the mock
virus.

However, she said there were certain problems that arose with the gear
that CFIA plans on improving in the new year.

The cold weather made it difficult for crews to work, since their goggles
kept fogging up. There were also no decontamination showers on site.

She said the CFIA is looking at purchasing new goggles and respirators in
the new year, along with investing in portable showers.

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Dégueulasse !

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d'autant plus que pas un seul poulet n'était atteint de la maladie !
C'est honteux ...

[Animal 0]

j'ai écrit poulets, mais en fait, il s'agissait de poules pondeuses ... Pauvres petites bêtes qui ont souffert du début jusqu'à la fin de leur misérable vie

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Animal a écrit:

j'ai écrit poulets, mais en fait, il s'agissait de poules pondeuses ...

Oui, j'avais compris qu'il s'agissait de pondeuses car il disait " because
the birds were no longer going to be used as laying hens". C'est tout simplement de la barbarie.