By Jose Tembe & Gloria Aradi BBC News, Maputo & Nairobi


More than 45,000 hens have been slaughtered, burnt and buried in southern Mozambique to prevent the spread of bird flu, officials say.

The birds had been imported from neighbouring South Africa, which has been hit by an outbreak of the disease.

The outbreak has now spread to Mozambique’s district of Morrumbene in the southern Inhambane province.

  • deegeese
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    1 year ago

    It’ll cause problems locally to be sure, but in context of the industry 45k dead chickens are a rounding error.

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      1 year ago

      True, there’s enough nuggets to go around.

      Largely, hunger for humanity is a logistics issue; not a production issue.

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        1 year ago

        It’s not even a logistics issue, it’s a capitalism issue meaning we don’t allocate the same amount of resources to poorer peoples.

        We have more than enough food for the world, we’d just rather see people starve to death because we decided they can’t afford it.

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          1 year ago

          It would be a logistics issue with Mercantilism, Communism or Fuedalism too; we’d just also have a supply issue with those systems.

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            1 year ago

            There is no logistics issue.

            We can get the food out there, logistics is not an issue. Distribution of food today is purely a choice we have made based on who has money.

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              1 year ago

              There definitely is a logistics issue especially for perishable goods. It’s not like sufficient rail exists from Kansas to Mozambique and we can just ship a refrigerated boxcar of chicken there.