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Fake cows ready for milking at state fairs as bird flu looms

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So, kind of a funny headline, right? As I read further I found very little to laugh at!
As this 'Avian' flu begins to decimate our dairy and cattle operations--after blasting the egg business---it is now spreading to the human population. 4 workers sick.
All parties agree the numbers are under-reported.
If this continues, and mandatory culling becomes the only solution....the price of dairy--through the roof.


In Michigan this year, where dairy workers and herds have fallen ill from bird flu, a pair of unlikely prized cows are being prepped to take the state fair stage.
State fair organizers are this year featuring Milkshake and Buttercup, two life-sized fiberglass cows complete with rubber teats and water-filled udders, for a popular milking demo.
The head of the Minnesota State Fair's Moo Booth came up with a similar work around for its hands-on milking event: a fake dairy cow named Olympia.

"Normally, we'd have a real cow out there," said Jill Nathe, the fair's deputy general manager of agriculture and competition. "We just can't do that right now."
As avian influenza continues to spread, infecting cattle herds for the first time this year as well as four dairy workers, U.S. state and county fair organizers have been forced to reimagine nostalgic summer traditions long celebrated by city and rural folk alike.

For farmers and students eager for blue ribbons and bragging rights, the outbreak has forced them to navigate new testing rules and manage logistical headaches in order to obtain a clean bill of health for animals before entering the show ring.
State and local officials say they are trying to protect people and animals from the H5N1 virus
as some dairy farmers have declined to test their herds. Experts worry that further transmission of the virus could help it adapt to spread between humans.

The risk of viral spread among herds prompted some county fairs in Michigan to cancel dairy shows, while the Iowa State Fair shuttered its milking barn.

In Minnesota, state fair staff procured extra gloves and face shields from COVID-era stockpiles for the livestock crew, and kept pregnant dairy cows out of the fair's birthing center.

The U.S. bird-flu outbreak in dairy cattle is much larger than official figures suggest due to farmers' reluctance to test their animals and risk the economic consequences of a positive result, according to Reuters interviews with dairy experts, veterinarians, and farmers in six states with known cases.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has counted bird flu in about 190 dairy herds in 13 states since March. The virus's jump from birds to cows heightened concerns that it could adapt to spread among humans. Scientists have warned that limited surveillance could weaken the U.S.' ability to respond to further human spread.

Thirteen dairy and poultry farm workers have been infected with bird flu this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
 
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The dairy industry is a farce. It's heavily subsidized and aside from being used for certain foods there is no reason for any human being over infancy to be consuming milk. The adult human body was never designed for it.
 
The dairy industry is a farce. It's heavily subsidized and aside from being used for certain foods there is no reason for any human being over infancy to be consuming milk. The adult human body was never designed for it.
But then you would not have milk cartons with missing politicians on them. ;)

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So, kind of a funny headline, right? As I read further I found very little to laugh at!
As this 'Avian' flu begins to decimate our dairy and cattle operations--after blasting the egg business---it is now spreading to the human population. 4 workers sick.
All parties agree the numbers are under-reported.
If this continues, and mandatory culling becomes the only solution....the price of dairy--through the roof.


In Michigan this year, where dairy workers and herds have fallen ill from bird flu, a pair of unlikely prized cows are being prepped to take the state fair stage.
State fair organizers are this year featuring Milkshake and Buttercup, two life-sized fiberglass cows complete with rubber teats and water-filled udders, for a popular milking demo.
The head of the Minnesota State Fair's Moo Booth came up with a similar work around for its hands-on milking event: a fake dairy cow named Olympia.

"Normally, we'd have a real cow out there," said Jill Nathe, the fair's deputy general manager of agriculture and competition. "We just can't do that right now."
As avian influenza continues to spread, infecting cattle herds for the first time this year as well as four dairy workers, U.S. state and county fair organizers have been forced to reimagine nostalgic summer traditions long celebrated by city and rural folk alike.

For farmers and students eager for blue ribbons and bragging rights, the outbreak has forced them to navigate new testing rules and manage logistical headaches in order to obtain a clean bill of health for animals before entering the show ring.
State and local officials say they are trying to protect people and animals from the H5N1 virus
as some dairy farmers have declined to test their herds. Experts worry that further transmission of the virus could help it adapt to spread between humans.

The risk of viral spread among herds prompted some county fairs in Michigan to cancel dairy shows, while the Iowa State Fair shuttered its milking barn.

In Minnesota, state fair staff procured extra gloves and face shields from COVID-era stockpiles for the livestock crew, and kept pregnant dairy cows out of the fair's birthing center.

The U.S. bird-flu outbreak in dairy cattle is much larger than official figures suggest due to farmers' reluctance to test their animals and risk the economic consequences of a positive result, according to Reuters interviews with dairy experts, veterinarians, and farmers in six states with known cases.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has counted bird flu in about 190 dairy herds in 13 states since March. The virus's jump from birds to cows heightened concerns that it could adapt to spread among humans. Scientists have warned that limited surveillance could weaken the U.S.' ability to respond to further human spread.

Thirteen dairy and poultry farm workers have been infected with bird flu this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
My nephew is one of the top bird people in the world, works as Chief Ornithologist at one of the worlds biggest zoos for a decade, is flown all over the world a few times a year to help propagate rare or severely depleted bird species AND NEVER HAD “BIRD FLU”!!

This is just COVID Election redux
 
I'm leaving for Paris today. I'll be eating plenty of that, I'm sure, but other than my Greek yogurt that I eat daily for the protein, I consume very little dairy at home.
I'm about the same...We have the Chobani factory here, world's largest--and good Greek yogurt is very easy to come by.

Fast story, I have met Hamdi Ulukaya a few times, in the course of Twin Falls life, and I once heard him asked why, if his recipe is from his home village in Turkey, did he call it 'Greek' yogurt?
Hamdi replied, "How many Americans do you think would buy Turkish yogurt?"

the crowd laughed, nodded and moved on~
 
Lately I've been topping my breakfast granola with three plops of Chobani yogurt. Turkish, ay? How often does he wash his hands?
 
Well..ya know those billionaires--probably has someone to wash them for him~


FYI..I think he's Kurdish.
Well in that case, I bet he keeps his cars clean anyway:
Hannah: Right, because we’ve talked about this before that Kurdish people love to go on picnics out in the countryside and they take all their food with them and they take plastic tablecloths and plastic plates and forks and knives and bottles of water and Coke cans and all of that stuff. But that trash is then considered dirty and they don’t want to put it into their clean cars and so they just leave it. Like especially in March when it’s like prime picnic season you drive out into the countryside and it’s just like this would be beautiful but there is so much trash just left there.

Colleen: Yeah and the streams and the like the water places that are in the really popular picnic areas like it’s just filled with trash.
lol
 
So, kind of a funny headline, right? As I read further I found very little to laugh at!
As this 'Avian' flu begins to decimate our dairy and cattle operations--after blasting the egg business---it is now spreading to the human population. 4 workers sick.
All parties agree the numbers are under-reported.
If this continues, and mandatory culling becomes the only solution....the price of dairy--through the roof.


In Michigan this year, where dairy workers and herds have fallen ill from bird flu, a pair of unlikely prized cows are being prepped to take the state fair stage.
State fair organizers are this year featuring Milkshake and Buttercup, two life-sized fiberglass cows complete with rubber teats and water-filled udders, for a popular milking demo.
The head of the Minnesota State Fair's Moo Booth came up with a similar work around for its hands-on milking event: a fake dairy cow named Olympia.

"Normally, we'd have a real cow out there," said Jill Nathe, the fair's deputy general manager of agriculture and competition. "We just can't do that right now."
As avian influenza continues to spread, infecting cattle herds for the first time this year as well as four dairy workers, U.S. state and county fair organizers have been forced to reimagine nostalgic summer traditions long celebrated by city and rural folk alike.

For farmers and students eager for blue ribbons and bragging rights, the outbreak has forced them to navigate new testing rules and manage logistical headaches in order to obtain a clean bill of health for animals before entering the show ring.
State and local officials say they are trying to protect people and animals from the H5N1 virus
as some dairy farmers have declined to test their herds. Experts worry that further transmission of the virus could help it adapt to spread between humans.

The risk of viral spread among herds prompted some county fairs in Michigan to cancel dairy shows, while the Iowa State Fair shuttered its milking barn.

In Minnesota, state fair staff procured extra gloves and face shields from COVID-era stockpiles for the livestock crew, and kept pregnant dairy cows out of the fair's birthing center.

The U.S. bird-flu outbreak in dairy cattle is much larger than official figures suggest due to farmers' reluctance to test their animals and risk the economic consequences of a positive result, according to Reuters interviews with dairy experts, veterinarians, and farmers in six states with known cases.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has counted bird flu in about 190 dairy herds in 13 states since March. The virus's jump from birds to cows heightened concerns that it could adapt to spread among humans. Scientists limited surveillance could weaken the U.S.' ability to respond to further human spread.

Thirteen dairy and poultry farm workers have been infected with bird flu this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sorry....no lockdowns.
 
The dairy industry is a farce. It's heavily subsidized and aside from being used for certain foods there is no reason for any human being over infancy to be consuming milk. The adult human body was never designed for it.
just ,look at you telling the rest of the world what they should do,,

theres a word for that,,
 

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