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28 million chickens and ducks were killed due to the highly pathogenic AI avian influenza that has spread nationwide since October last year.

It was buried over 200,000 poultry a day.

In the field, even brutal methods are being used to break the rules.



This is reporter Song In-ho.



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is a spawning chicken farm in Gyeonggi-do, where a highly pathogenic avian influenza occurred last month.



Employees of a killing service company use heavy equipment to crush and kill live chickens.



I tried to suffocate by closing all the doors of the coop, but when it didn't work, I took it out of the coop and killed it.



[Culture disposal A farm official: There are a lot of chickens alive.

The chickens are all blown away, so they are pressed with a scoop and killed by humans.] The



government's guidelines say,'Among animals such as injection, electricity, drugs, gas, etc., choose a method that is less painful for animals.



However, it is not well observed in the field.



[Destruction B Farm Official: (The local government) is just telling us to finish it quickly, regardless of the means and methods.

After roughly knocking it out, inject gas and if it's alive, just press it with a scoop.]



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A Farm official:'All kill within 24 hours of AI occurrence'.

It is ridiculous to follow such regulations (SOP).]



Currently, there is a growing voice to change the killing-oriented quarantine policy toward prevention.



Minimize killing methods, which have a high social and economic cost, and put preventive vaccines on chickens and ducks.



[Song Chang-seon/Professor of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk University: The virus spreads across the country every time a migratory bird arrives, but the vaccine has the effect of reliably blocking the spread of (virus), so it is necessary to review the use of such a policy once. I think not.]



China, Indonesia and Vietnam are vaccinating poultry every year, and France and the Netherlands sometimes put it in the form of a preventive vaccine during the spread of avian influenza.



(Video coverage: Cho Chun-dong, video editing: Lee Seung-hee, screen provided: Animal Freedom Solidarity)