10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2015

This mainly affects domestic fowl, and in this sense is not a topic central to 10,000 Birds. Close to 5% of turkeys being farmed in Minnesota have been or shortly will be destroyed , and the virus is also affecting chickens. What is H5N2 Avian Influenza? H5N2 is a bird influenza virus that is making news. Or, even, many of them.

Mississippi 186

Mississippi Fowl Turkey Minnesota 186

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

Of course, there may very well have been fowl-inspired weathervanes in ancient Greece and Rome. Operating out of a former hop farm since 1997, Ommegang is well regarded for its dedication to Belgian beer styles, but it’s nice to see the brewery venture outside of the traditions of Flanders and Wallonia on occasion with a release like this.

New York 165

New York Farming Belgium Fowl 165

Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

But the method she advocates for reaching those goals—raising grass-eating, pasture-foraging farm animals—would appear to be notoriously difficult to reproduce on a scale large enough to harvest enough meat, at a reasonable cost, for all the people wanting to eat meat in this country, let alone the world. Lois Bloom Easton, Conn.,

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Meat San Antonio 40

10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2018

And that’s not all: I’m even relaxing my unwritten prohibition against featuring domestic fowl. But is there a bird more emblematic of France than the humble – yet decidedly exotic – farmyard chicken? A literal case of the proverbial chickens coming home to roost, perhaps, but the result was the same.

2016 104

2016 France Chickens Fowl 104