Avian flu: “incomprehensible decision”, “denial of reality”… the confinement of poultry hotly contested

This is a new blow for breeders. Since Friday and France’s passage into “high risk” of avian influenza, the confinement of poultry is again compulsory everywhere in the territory, and in particular in the Gers. An aberration for the Peasant Confederation and Modef. The two agricultural unions published a joint press release on Friday, November 8 to denounce an “incomprehensible decision which results from the recent appearance of avian flu on farms… which were mostly already confined and for some vaccinated”.

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“The choice to lock up poultry throughout mainland France also raises questions, while only a handful of departments have cases of avian flu on farms and an experiment on biosecurity in free-range farms is in progress, the press release continues. The same rules have applied every winter for several years, without having proven their effectiveness. How can we still be locked into this denial of reality?

“The same causes will produce the same consequences”

For the two unions, the vaccination of the ducks “could have been an opportunity to review the functioning of the sectors. But they have resumed their old habits: high densities, incessant transport of animals and staff, exchanges of equipment… Unsurprisingly , the same causes will produce the same consequences For almost 10 years, the Peasant Confederation and Modef have denounced the targeting of free-range farming as responsible for the avian crises. agriculture and food sovereignty decides to sacrifice for the benefit of the industrial model supported by the leaders of the FNSEA and the interprofessions.”