The United States ruling class has decided to continue using the failed policy of culling poultry to stop the spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus. The policy has done nothing to stop bird flu from infecting poultry and has been an abysmal failure at every level.

The decision to cull birds in response to bird flu outbreaks has raised egg prices and caused them to reach record highs in recent months.

The decision marks a rebuke of an idea floated by Trump administration officials in recent weeks to change the policy. More than 35 million birds have been killed in response to bird flu outbreaks in commercial flocks so far this year, according to the USDA’s figures.

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“The Biden plan was to just kill chickens, and they spent billions of dollars just randomly killing chickens within a perimeter where they found a sick chicken,” Kevin Hasset, director of the White House’s economic council, told CBS News‘ “Face the Nation” on February 16th. But it looks like that’s also the Trump administration’s plan too, and it isn’t reversing course as previously thought.

“No anticipated changes to our current stamping-out policy at this time. And we will continue to follow WOAH guidelines,” Rosemary Sifford, chief veterinary officer for the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, said Wednesday on a call with stakeholders.

“The avian flu is an extremely fast-spreading virus. And within a couple of days, it spreads so quickly that most of the chickens have died anyway,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Wednesday in a Fox News interview.

The U.S. and most other countries have a “stamping-out policy” for bird flu to comply with standards that underpin international poultry exports from the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH).

If this policy had worked, bird flu would have been eradicated by now.

Rollins did say that some farmers are willing to try a new policy that would lead to immunity rather than euthanization.

This is all leading to a path of mass vaccination and a food system reset.