Victorian Firefighting Foam Kills Ducks
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•Victorian government criticised over ‘barbaric’ use of firefighting foam to kill 30,000 farmed ducks
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30,000 ducks were killed using firefighting foam as part of the Victorian government’s effort to contain bird flu.
Animal Justice party MP Georgie Purcell has condemned the use of the foam as “nothing short of barbaric” The state agriculture minister confirmed Agriculture Victoria used Phos-Chek , a class-A foam, while responding to a highly contagious strain of avian influenza , or bird flu, which emerged earlier this year at several poultry farms.
The RSPCA has called for further research to develop more humane methods of managing biosecurity outbreaks.
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