By Jose Tembe & Gloria Aradi BBC News, Maputo & Nairobi
More than 45,000 hens have been slaughtered, burnt and buried in southern Mozambique to prevent the spread of bird flu, officials say.
The birds had been imported from neighbouring South Africa, which has been hit by an outbreak of the disease.
The outbreak has now spread to Mozambique’s district of Morrumbene in the southern Inhambane province.
Worldwide, about 145,000 chickens are harvested every minute.
This will push back your chicken dinner by about 20 seconds.
Chicken production is much more limited in Mozambique. The article talked about the localized supply problems creating expensive chicken there.
It’ll cause problems locally to be sure, but in context of the industry 45k dead chickens are a rounding error.
True, there’s enough nuggets to go around.
Largely, hunger for humanity is a logistics issue; not a production issue.
It’s not even a logistics issue, it’s a capitalism issue meaning we don’t allocate the same amount of resources to poorer peoples.
We have more than enough food for the world, we’d just rather see people starve to death because we decided they can’t afford it.
Capitalism has nothing to do with it, since there’s no real global economy. Underdeveloped countries need to develop.
It would be a logistics issue with Mercantilism, Communism or Fuedalism too; we’d just also have a supply issue with those systems.
There is no logistics issue.
We can get the food out there, logistics is not an issue. Distribution of food today is purely a choice we have made based on who has money.
There definitely is a logistics issue especially for perishable goods. It’s not like sufficient rail exists from Kansas to Mozambique and we can just ship a refrigerated boxcar of chicken there.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
More than 45,000 hens have been slaughtered, burnt and buried in southern Mozambique to prevent the spread of bird flu, officials say.
The outbreak has led to a shortage of eggs and chickens, and a sharp rise in prices in recent days, in Mozambique, including in the capital Maputo.
The 45,000 incinerated hens had been in contact with chickens infected by bird flu in South Africa, said Mozambique’s National Director of Livestock Development Américo da Conceição.
South Africa has been grappling with one of its worst bird flu outbreaks, forcing poultry farmers to kill seven million egg-laying hens, which amounts to 20-30% of the country’s entire stock, according to South African Poultry Association.
The government has also stopped the circulation of chickens, eggs and animal feed from Morrumbene, the epicentre of the outbreak, to other parts of Mozambique.
Authorities said the hens were burnt to prevent people taking and eating them after they were slaughtered.
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