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Kreider Farms had Pennsylvanias first outbreak of the disease in nearly 40 years last spring. Its experience shows the complexity of responding to the disease, which has infected close to

Kreider Farms had Pennsylvanias first outbreak of the disease in nearly 40 years last spring. Its experience shows the complexity of responding to the disease, which has infected close to

The avian influenza outbreak has elevated interest in a controversial depopulation method that, done right, might strike a balance between efficiency and animal welfare.

State agriculture secretaries are encouraging USDA to reconsider the role for Ventilation Shutdown Plus in depopulating poultry houses.

Laborers worked for a month disposing of birds killed in a gruesomely inhumane manner. Then they found they too were disposable

Animal rights activists say the manner in which the birds were killed was unnecessarily cruel.