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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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Worldwide, about 145,000 chickens are harvested every minute.

This will push back your chicken dinner by about 20 seconds.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chicken production is much more limited in Mozambique. The article talked about the localized supply problems creating expensive chicken there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, there's enough nuggets to go around.

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ 1 points 1 year ago

Capitalism has nothing to do with it, since there's no real global economy. Underdeveloped countries need to develop.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.