France to cull over one million poultry in coming weeks to fight bird flu

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PARIS - The French government said Thursday that it would cull more than one million birds in the coming weeks to fightAll ducks, chickens and turkeys must be culled in some 226 municipalities in Fr

ance's southwestern Landes, Gers and Pyrenees Atlantiques departments, totalling up to 1.3 million birds.

Farmers in the region, famous for its lucrative but controversial foie gras liver pate, are compensated for the culled animals. Several European countries are now battling a highly contagious flu strain, H5N1, just a year after a similar virus decimated flocks.

 

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Why are they still killing geese by shoving food down their throats that's the real question I have now they're going to have to cull the geese that they've already tortured stop eating fragua why do the French have to eat foie gras why do they have to eat fatty liver

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