Record temperatures have been causing mass poultry deaths in western France since June 22, Reuters reported. The heat wave, with temperatures exceeding 40° Celsius (104° Fahrenheit), is also behind the drowning of 40 people. Météo-France, the French national weather service, wrote in a statement that June 24 and 25 were the hottest days recorded in France since records began in 1947. Yann Nedelec, head of ANVOL, a French poultry-sector organization, estimated that at least several hundred thousand poultry in both indoor and outdoor farms died, though he told Reuters it was too soon for a precise death count. Chicken farmer Clement Blanchard, based in Saint-Andre-Goule-d’Oie, a commune in Pays de la Loire, told Reuters that around 700 of his chickens had died over the span of a few days, compared to an average death rate of one or two per day. “We’re faced with the same thing with our animals as we are ourselves: they suffer enormously from the heat, and so at times like this there are abnormally high death rates,” he told Reuters. Stéphane Delapré, a poultry breeder in Beauvoir-sur-Mer in Normandy, northwestern France, told AFP that the heat on June 22 had killed roughly half of his 17,600 chickens. “Half of the chickens died, suffocated by the heat: those that were in the buildings and also those that were under the trees,” he said. “In [my] 42-year … career, I have never seen anything like it.” The Chamber of Agriculture in both Brittany and Pays de Loire,…This article was originally published on Mongabay
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I love how the fuck cars religious zelots take over single threads in Lemmy like the plaque. This time its vegans.
Every time somebody peddles a simple solution to a complex problem you are being delusional.
Climate change is certainly a complex problem, and switching to a majority plant based diet is certainly a facet of a potential solution to reducing climate emissions. That mainly is about reducing the number of cows. That’s not veganism though.
Factory farming with cut throat (he he) margins like in this case is certainly a problem. The problem is a race to the bottom in price and a facet of the solution is reducing consumption and stringent regulation. Again thats not a veganism solution.
In both cases it would help, but its an extreme and unhealthy solution nobody wants. Veganism is a personal choice and I respect your choice. Now respect peoples c right to choice and fuck off trying to push your religion on others.