Midwest Chick's Place

Shots for bird flu are off the table. And thank goodness for that. They’ve been doing prep work to get shots into chickens the way they have into beef and pigs. But that was Biden-era thinking.

Now all three ‘public health’ agencies are saying it’s a bad thing, along with the new head of the USDA. Why? Because bird flu shots don’t stop the bird flu any more than the covid shots stopped covid. And, per RFK Jr…

“The vaccine could actually promote antigenic shift, which means you’re turning those birds into mutant factories, and that could actually accelerate the jump to human beings,”

The head of the USDA actually bothered to check with countries using bird flu shots (Mexico, in particular) and found out that they were giving chickens two or three or more shots and upwards of 80% were still getting the flu anyway (to the surprise of no-one who follows this).

But what I learned is that looking at countries like Mexico that actually do vaccinate their egg-layers is that those chickens have to be stuck three or four or five times with those vaccine shots and then 80 to 83 percent of those chickens still get the avian bird flu. So I pulled that off the table and for a lot of reasons we are not going to be moving off the table on mandatory vaccines now or frankly ever. So putting that money into the research into making sure it’s effective and safe and in my conversations with the NIH and the CDC and others there are some real concerns on the vaccine side. One of my favorite and it sort of affected me significantly was Gov. Jim Pillen of Nebraska who is a fifth-generation farmer and is also a veterinarian, he said to me ‘Brooke, don’t ever forget, the virus always wins.’ I think that’s what we’re seeing. So that’s been an interesting piece of this, and I think the research on therapeutics is going to be very important perhaps pivoting away from a vaccine if necessary. 

So wow, the USDA actually listened to a farmer for once. That’s awesome! And safer for our food chain.