bird flu hits bernard mathews turkeys...what do you think?

beer2006

I bet the turkeys minded more than the vets

And I bet the vets got good OT for it and maybe some sort of extra payment I should think.
Besides they were gassed, the horrible job will be picking them all up and disposing of them, they will be incinerated somewhere I should think. Maybe on site I don't know. Its probably been on the news this morning, but I haven't looked yet.

raymond

tr3mor wrote:

I ate beef then, I'm still standing.

Honestly, there's more risk crossing the road. I presume you do that fairly often!

That will be why the government have indroduced rediculous levels of record keeping and testing for blood transfusions as they are expecting an epidemic outbreak of cjd within the next 5 to 10 years from people who ate contaminated meat or had blood transfusions from people who ate meat.

Dont worry about it, and keep buying the turkey that none of the rest of us would walk past never mond eat !!

Mind you, if the (incompetent and underfunded) government departments have managed to find one outbreak that probably means there are hundreds of others that they have not found so you may well have eaten infected birds already.

tr3mor

raymond wrote:

Dont worry about it, and keep buying the turkey that none of the rest of us would walk past never mond eat !!

Your loss.

Justie

earwig wrote:

thats what they said about bse

im not going to panic im just not going to test out their theory that its safe to eat infected meat and then find out later that there is a risk

BSE is completely different and the disease process wasn't understood (still isn't fully and saying it's from infected spinal chord is a best guess rather than fact), the incidences are still rare however and most people will have eating potentially 'dangerous' meat without ever realising or having any ill effects.

Avian flu is completely different - it is a virus that like any flu is transmitted through close contact with someone or something that is infected - so unless you make a habit of walking in turkey poo or slaughter your own birds in your kitchen you are at no risk whatsoever of contracting avian flu. IF it ever transmutes to that it can be passed from human to human then that's a whole other story but until then those who keep poultry should take special care with hygiene and everyone else should ignore all the scaremongering and keep doing what you were doing before.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

i feel that there could be more cases.... as lets be honest a person /farmer who has only got a few birds... and one or two of their birds die.....they might just think its old age or whatever..

also with the bse.. imo it was animal byproducts being put into the feed to bulk it up cheaply that was the problem....

cows are veggies not carnivours..... i am sure that it was the same symptons as a tribe somewhere.. where they ate their other tribe members once they died :eek: .... known as canabalism sp?

also by all acounts the dreaded foot and mouth.... that we had a few years ago.... with all those animals being slaughtered... the meat was safe to eat....

bernard mathews.. not only got their own brand.. they also supply supermarkets...... with their branded frozen turkey products.... and fresh turkey in the meat isle......

the government are going to say anything to save a section of a food industry if something big happens.....

i say use your own judgement.....as let be totally realistic ....unless you..... grow it... rear it.........kill it yourself........cook it yourself... you honestly dont know what is happening to your food.... at that goes for locally produced/reared.......food...

there was case a few years ago that a local farmer was selling free range organic eggs at markets etc.... and when his place was inspected they were all caged in filth.....

earwig

tr3mor wrote:

I ate beef then, I'm still standing.

Honestly, there's more risk crossing the road. I presume you do that fairly often!

yes i do cross the road often but only when it safe to do so i dont cross the road when im not sure its safe just because someone told me it was iyswim

Penny-Pincher!!

We dont really buy turkey as I can never cook it well, although I have tried everything:D

Saying that we used to always have those turkey drummer things in for DD when she was little:eek: :eek: :eek: and if they are reduced vastly...may buy some more. Great for maybe kids party as they have no bones in them.

PP
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Horasio

I don't like turkey but do like chicken now and again

jennybb

Certainly not me. Only eat free range organic turkey on speacial occaisions - because the conditions they are reared in are appalling.

I hope that our hardworking free range and organic poultry farmers do not suffer too much after this.

tr3mor

Toxic_Lemon wrote:

I hope people don't get too hysterical over this. I have a pet bird (indoors) and hope I don't get any comments from stupid people.

Best send it to slaughter, just to be on the safe side :eek: