"According to the (((government))), avian flu, is sweeping across chicken and turkey farms, which means officials must slaughter these birds in order to keep people from eating their meat and eggs " IMHO, this is the only sentence that matters, because it's all bullshit. If avian diseases have proven anything, it's that the leaky vaccine for Marek's disease in poultry should have given folks a huge red flag about the shit they're trying to jab you with today. Farmers don't kill off a flock of chickens afflicted with Marek's disease or avian flu because they're worried that you'll be eating a sick bird. It's safe to eat the meat and eggs. They kill off the flock for the same reason you'd cull anything, because it's a detriment to the overall health of any other poultry you may want to raise. When the government starts telling farmers how to manage their livestock, that's when you know it's all bulllshit.