Foie gras producers have called for a mass cull of ducks in the face of an outbreak of bird flu

France's agriculture ministry says there have been 124 bird flu outbreaks in southwestern France, twice as many as a week ago.
as the number of infected farms increases, foie gras producers are calling on the health sector to expand preventive slaughter of ducks.
more than 350,000 ducks have been culled, according to the French Ministry of Agriculture on January 7.
previous report by the head of the veterinary department, the number of ducks culled as of January 5 was 200,000.
virus is stronger than we are," Marie Pierre, president of the French Foie gras Industry Federation, was quoted as saying by the Guardian.
are constantly infected with new ducks.
", "under existing procedures, all waterfowl within a radius of 3 km around the identified source of the epidemic will be culled."
poultry raised in the open must be slaughtered.
outbreaks in the UK, the Netherlands, northern Germany and Belgium.
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