So true! How much actual 'learning' do you have in public health, epidemiology, livestock management, veterinary medicine, or the history of pandemics? The people managing this crisis do know what they are doing!
Mary
One reason I'm reluctant to add to our run space this year. Our coop is inconveniently placed for additions of any sort, sadly. In general it's kept me from adding even more birds, and this year it's really not good in other ways.
Mary
I'm agreeing with you, Killer! Those of us who can grow food, should. Places where actual starvation has occurred, and is happening right now, can't also afford our 'factory farming' methods.
War and drought cause famine; food production is a huge problem many places, much more complicated...
There are not absolutes in this, it's possible to improve management towards better care of food animals, and still have affordable food available. And if more of us grew our own food, that would also help.
I've never been hungry/ food deprived, and know how lucky I've been to be born and...
Yes, feeding plants from the yard is just out this year, and I'm buying grit for my birds, because there's no way I'm giving them dirt/ gravel from outside either.
This would not be the way we want to loose our flock and have to start over later!
Mary