With whole flocks of chickens and turkeys being wiped out I hope someone is starting to pay attention. One recent outbreak wasn't far from Frank Resse's poultry ranch, could you imagine if he lost his whole flock of heritage breeds?!!, or anyone else that has had lines going for generations?!!?.
This is what concerns me regarding how the USDA is handling these things. They set up an arbitrary quarantine/eradication zone and slaughter all the poultry within the zone, without bothering to test first. Granted, testing first is more expensive, but when you're talking about a bunch of *heritage* birds that could be slaughtered because of this arbitrary eradication zone, that's a problem. We literally could have the majority of a rare breed lost with just one person's flock being slaughtered because they happened to be *in the zone*, even if their birds were not infected. And yet nobody is really paying attention and trying to come up with more reasonable ways to deal with things.