Can you imagine what this country is going to look like if we have severe shortages of chicken and turkey by the end of the year?  I don't know why more people are not alarmed about the horrific bird flu pandemic that is sweeping across America like wildfire right now.  On February 8th, the very first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) was confirmed in a domestic U.S. flock.  Just over one month later, on March 9th, I released an article that lamented the fact that almost 2.8 million birds (mostly chickens and turkeys) had already died during the first month of the pandemic.  Unfortunately, since that time things have gotten much, much worse.  This pandemic is not even two months old yet, and the death toll for chickens and turkeys has now risen to nearly 17 million.

If this many chickens and turkeys have been wiped out already, what will the death toll be a few months down the road?

And what will this mean for the price of food?

Just think about how often you eat products that contain eggs, chicken or turkey.

If you had to suddenly remove all of them from your diet, what would you do?

The frightening thing is that bird flu just keeps popping up in more places around the country and nobody can tell us why it is spreading so rapidly.  In fact, the USDA just announced five more outbreaks…

The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a non-commercial, mixed-species backyard flock (non-poultry) in Berkshire County, Massachusetts; a non-commercial, mixed-species backyard flock (non-poultry) in Johnson County, Wyoming; a commercial poultry flock in Johnston County, North Carolina; a non-commercial, backyard chicken flock (non-poultry) in Franklin County, Ohio; and a non-commercial, backyard chicken flock (poultry) in Kidder County, North Dakota.