ONE FLU EAST, ONE FLU WEST...

HN51 bird flu has turned out to be a good way for Big Chicken to clean up the competition and cut out that pesky, uneconomical free range nonsense.

With the risk of disease outbreaks in intensive agriculture so high, it makes sense to increase your chances by not keeping all your assets in one place.

The bird farms may be distributed but the waste processing is centralised.

This might have made sense, if it had been centralised somewhere else.

And not next to the country's most charming medieval town.

Originally this was done so they could just pump it into the beautiful River Drava.

Lately this industry's waste disposal systems have started to involve tons of greenwash.  

The Ptuj company's website describes the production cycle without mentioning the waste at all.  

You can see it's a cycle because it's round, right?

At the same time production is "vertically integrated".  

Which means?  The bosses live up on the hill, and the lucky peasants get Bumcrack City.

You can get to some more data on pollution from poultry waste processing here: http://www.energyjustice.net/fibrowatch/

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