The Government’s War on “Backyard” Farms
“I’m still the king of me” – Part 1
On the front page of the CDC website, is the following headline:
Which then opens into the following:
- Are you ready to give away your chickens?
- Move from the country?
- Wear gloves and a mask when caring for backyard chickens?
- Stop buying eggs from your local farmer
- or, all of the above?
But hold your horses, reading further into the report – here are the numbers:
Out of 330 million people in the USA in 2024, 109 have gotten sick from Salmonella and have some association with backyard poultry this year.
A further dig into the CDC archives reveals that for the past six years, the CDC has conducted successive investigative “reports” on Salmonella outbreaks linked to backyard poultry. In fact, they write numerous articles on the subject each year.
Something fishy is going on here…
A search for poultry and salmonella on the CDC website reveals no such investigations or public reports for commercial poultry operations. There are NO reports for 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 or 2019 (the archives stop at 2019).
The CDC estimates that Salmonella bacteria cause about 1 million illnesses, 19,000 hospitalizations, and 380 deaths each year in the U.S
Below are the numbers for salmonella cases linked to backyard poultry, according to the CDC webpages:
An extensive search on the CDC website could not find how many people are sickened by commercial poultry each year.
So I went to various AI services, which spat out answers about risk of transmission and statistics about being sickened backyard poultry. The exact same pablum that I had found on the CDC website.
So, then I went the USDA website, and from there I was able to extrapolate the answer.
Therefore, according to the USDA, 1 million x .23% = 230,000 people are sickened by Salmonella associated with the consumption of chicken and turkey each year.
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