Posted AT 2:53 PM EDT on 05/04/04
Mass slaughter of B.C. fowl ordered
Agriculture Minister Bob Speller has ordered the slaughter of about 19 million birds in B.C.'s Fraser Valley in an attempt to stem the spread of avian influenza.
The mass cull amounts to the depopulation of all the commercial and backyard bird flocks of chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese and pigeons between Hope and the outskirts of Greater Vancouver — in effect wiping out 80 per cent of British Columbia's $1-billion poultry industry.
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