The egg-laying hens had been imported from South Africa, which is facing one of its worst outbreaks.

By Jose Tembe & Gloria Aradi BBC News, Maputo & Nairobi

More than 45,000 hens have been slaughtered, burnt and buried in southern Mozambique to prevent the spread of bird flu, officials say.

The birds had been imported from neighbouring South Africa, which has been hit by an outbreak of the disease.

The outbreak has now spread to Mozambique’s district of Morrumbene in the southern Inhambane province.

  • mwguy@infosec.pubOPEnglish
    72·
    11 months ago

    True, there’s enough nuggets to go around.

    Largely, hunger for humanity is a logistics issue; not a production issue.

    • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
      41·
      11 months ago

      It’s not even a logistics issue, it’s a capitalism issue meaning we don’t allocate the same amount of resources to poorer peoples.

      We have more than enough food for the world, we’d just rather see people starve to death because we decided they can’t afford it.

      • mwguy@infosec.pubOPEnglish
        12·
        11 months ago

        It would be a logistics issue with Mercantilism, Communism or Fuedalism too; we’d just also have a supply issue with those systems.

        • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          There is no logistics issue.

          We can get the food out there, logistics is not an issue. Distribution of food today is purely a choice we have made based on who has money.

          • mwguy@infosec.pubOPEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            There definitely is a logistics issue especially for perishable goods. It’s not like sufficient rail exists from Kansas to Mozambique and we can just ship a refrigerated boxcar of chicken there.