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I Animal welfare groups have heavily criticised the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for using ventilation shutdown to slaughter some of the 400,000 birds culled during January's avian influenza outbreak.
The USDA announced last autumn that it would only use ventilation shutdown as a last resort, but USDA spokesperson Andrea McNally confirmed that it was used in the Indiana outbreak on some of the turkeys and chickens...