Culling of 92,000 chickens begins in Japan after bird flu detected

 first bird flu case affecting livestock in Japan this season. 

Please define "season" here? There were a number of locations where the virus was detected in chickens late in the year last year and they were culled as well.

As a consumer, I'd really like to know where this poultry ends up so I know whether or not to avoid eating chicken where I am. Any way to access this information?

Talk about a bad day! Being one of those guys who has to go and cull 92,000 chickens.

and yet another outbreak, how many is that now!? just goes to show , the food safety Japan illusion that is force fed to the population yet still paying a premium price for food. give me some good poultry, beef, pork from NZ & Australia their strict quarantine practices means theyve had almost 0 outbreaks in the last 40yrs

Maria - agree. The whole "caged bird" poultry industry is questionable at best and disgustingly shocking at worst.

10,000s of birds crammed into and confined in such places is not only a criminal act of cruelty imo, but a recipe for health disaster.

One day, somewhere the crossover of disease (influenza?)will be swift and permanent, resulting in the deaths of many many humans. No scaremongering here. It has happened innumerable times over the centuries and will happen again. Just needs an incubator - a factory farm.

And the populace at large ('cept maybe those in Sanuki) have their eyes wide shut.

92,000 chickens killed. That means at least 92,000 chickens were being kept on how large a factory site. And given the turnover of lives - these birds' miserable, unnatural, painful lives are counted in weeks, not years as they would naturally be - billions of birds are born and killed in those places annually. Why?

It is monstrous, and appalling to imagine, and even though it is by no means the first time this has happened, what is the govt. doing to improve these conditions to protect health and lives?

Do Japanese farmers do this every year? There always seems to be a story in the winters about chicken being killed for some flu or other.

Educator60Jan. 12 12:17 pm JST

They usually end up buried in big pits in the ground.

How about the ones that were processed just prior to discovering the outbreak?