The U and the Flu: The bad science behind industrial poultry

It's been months since we've heard about bird flu in the U.S., but multiple outbreaks of deadly H5 bird flu are decimating poultry across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Yet, big poultry and its collaborators in government, including researchers at the University of Minnesota, are blaming wild waterfowl, which act as reservoirs for many influenza strains, for the new poultry outbreaks.

Join us Monday, February 13 in Minneapolis or via Facebook live for a talk with evolutionary biologist, Rob Wallace, when he discusses calling out the bad science being done to protect the industry from changing the confinement practices that cause the flu outbreaks, and what we can do to work for food systems that are not a public health risk. Read his latest blog on the subject as a primer for his talk.

How to join us via Facebook live

Go to our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/IATPiatp

We'll go live at 6:40 pm CST. At that time, scroll down our Facebook page past our photos, videos and possibly our most recent post. to our live video. When we go live, you'll see a video that says "Live Now" and "Live" If you don't see that, try refreshing the page a couple times.

If you don't have any sound or want to make the video full screen, go to the bottom right-hand corner of the video and you'll see the icons to changes those. If the speaker icon has an "x" next to it, like the below picture, that means the sound is off.

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