Big News: USDA Settles Lawsuit Challenging Its Bird Flu Response Plan

Published: July 12, 2022

In July 2020, Mercy For Animals joined a federal lawsuit challenging the United States Department of Agriculture’s inadequate response plan for highly pathogenic avian influenza (“bird flu”).

Now, two years later, the USDA has finally settled this lawsuit! This is a huge win for both animals and people.

Industrial poultry facilities and other factory farms are perfect breeding grounds for disease. With so many animals kept in crowded, filthy conditions, viruses can more easily mutate into deadly forms and spread, circulating among the animals or carried by workers, insects, and rodents.

This year alone, almost 38 million chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese have been killed in an attempt to stop the virus.

In settling our lawsuit, the USDA has agreed to go back to the drawing board and rework its avian flu response plan. This will involve assessing the plan’s environmental impacts—something the department should have done in the first place.

https://mercyforanimals.org/blog/usda-settles-lawsuit/

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Lightning Kills One Soldier and Injures 9 Others at Georgia Army Base

The episode occurred at about 11:10 a.m. in a training area at the base, the spokeswoman, Anne H. Bowman, said. There were isolated but strong thunderstorms in the area at the time.

She said that the extent of injuries to the nine other soldiers was not currently known and that she did not know whether they had all been struck by lightning or whether lightning had caused the injuries in another manner.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/20/us/lightning-fort-gordon-injured-dead.html

>>16772465

GITMO should have crickets on the inmates menu.

Every. Single. Day.

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>>16773048

From the start of July 21 to October 3, there are exactly 1776 hours.

SCOTUS is back in session on Oct 3, 2022

https://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html?d1=21&m1=7&y1=2022&d2=3&m2=10&y2=2022&h1=0&i1=0&s1=0&h2=0&i2=0&s2=0

Q Drop 1776

“Without the pen of the author of Common Sense, the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.” - John Adams