Potential Food and Energy Shortage Across the World

[Magnolia]

Joel Salatin posted an article on his blog yesterday about the so-called egg "shortage."
He states:

"The Trump administration is sucking up the entire news cycle, but something is percolating underneath in America that is extremely disturbing. The American Pastured Poultry Producers Association just released a 4-day synopsis of exterminated chickens and it's unnerving. This is 4 days, folks.

Weekly Disease Update 2/4-2/10

POULTRY CASES

2/4/25: Dauphin Co., PA, Commercial Egg Layer, 1,975,300
Adams Co., PA, WOAH Non-Poultry, 30
Mercer Co., OH, Commercial Turkey (x3), 27,300
Mercer Co., OH, Egg Pullets, 88,300
Mercer Co., OH, Egg Layers, 96,700
Darke Co., OH, Commercial Turkey, 5,400
Queens Co., NY, Live Bird Market, 1,100
Bronx Co., NY, Live Bird Market, 100
Newton Co., MO, Commercial Turkey, 13,600
Lawrence Co., MO, Commercial Turkey Breeder, 14,300
Jasper Co., MO, Commercial Turkey, 49,500
Alpena Co., MI, WOAH Non-Poultry, 8
Worcester Co., MD, Commercial Broiler, 201,600
Harvey Co., KS, WOAH Non-Poultry, 50

[That's one day.......he lists three more days of "culling" on his blog.........Musings from the Lunatic Farmer]

If you're still with me, you realize that even a cursory look at this list indicates we are in a strange place with agriculture and food. As far as I know, here is the situation:

The USDA head of the bird flu program now says it's ubiquitous--in the air, everywhere.

The USDA is using the widely discredited PCR test to determine what chickens and turkeys (and now dairy cows) have it.

The PCR test is a bit like a virus microscope and you can adjust the magnification (called "cycles") to find smaller and smaller bits and pieces. Massachusetts Dept. of Ag, to my knowledge, is the only state that has officially and publicly said anything above 30 cycles is fraudulent. In other words, you can magnify until you find parts anywhere--on your eating utensils, in your hair, and certainly in feathers. The USDA is using 45 cycles.

In other words, when you get particle size low enough, you can find almost anything anywhere. Kind of like the Russians who said "show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." In other words, if you want to arrest someone, we have enough rules to find something he offended.

Finally, realize that anyone who grows plants and animals knows that to strengthen genetics, you save, cultivate, and breed the survivors of a disease; you don't exterminate the specimens with immune systems vibrant enough to overcome the disease. The blanket extermination, even of the immune chickens, is probably one of the most asinine protocols ever foisted upon the food system.

......for the life of me none of this makes sense, and the numbers are overwhelming and shocking. And not even in the news.