Vaccinating chickens will create 'mutation factories,' RFK Jr. warns



U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has raised the alarm against vaccinating poultry in order to bring down America's astronomical egg prices. Kennedy suggested in a recent interview that doing so might transform farms into incubators for mutant viruses, creating problems far more serious for the population than eggs that cost $1 a piece.

Egg prices have spiraled out of control in recent months and years.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data indicate that between 1994 and 2022, the price of a dozen grade A eggs remained south of $3, and with few exceptions, hovered around or below $2. Prices began to skyrocket in 2022 and have hit record highs in recent weeks.

Last month, egg prices hit an all-time average high of $4.95 per dozen. In the first week of March, egg prices were reportedly averaging about $6.85 nationally. In some places, the Associated Press reported that consumers have been shelling out as much as a dollar per egg. The USDA predicted that egg prices will increase by 41.1% this year.

While there are multiple factors at play, these unprecedented egg prices are largely the result of mass exterminations of commercial and backyard bird populations ordered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

'They're teaching the organism how to mutate.'

The stated purpose of these culls is to curb the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5) viruses. The agency has directed the extermination of over 166.41 million birds since the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspect Service first confirmed HPAI belonging to the clade 2.3.4.4b in a commercial flock in the U.S. on Feb. 8, 2022.Well over 30 million egg-laying birds have been culled since Jan. 1.

Absent these interventions, the virus would supposedly inflict devastating economic damage and possibly even pose health risks to humans — even though there has only been one recorded human death from HPAI in the U.S., and there are no documented cases of person-to-person spread.

Desperation over egg prices has prompted renewed interest in possibly vaccinating birds against the virus. The administration appears to be receptive.

While Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins noted that vaccines "aren't a stand-alone solution," she recently indicated that the USDA is committing $100 million for vaccine research and development.

There are multiple avian HPAI vaccines available, one of which received a conditional license from the USDA last month for use in chickens. However, the U.S. and the U.K. have resisted large-scale rollouts because vaccination could mask infections, delay detection, and ultimately lead to the need for larger culls. Another concern over vaccines that has been expressed on both sides of the Atlantic is the possibility that vaccination would prompt a false sense of security, thereby compromising biosecurity and again undermining efforts to protect supply.

Vaccination would also amount to an admission that the virus has become endemic rather than epidemic.

Kennedy, more than happy to acknowledge the wild endemicity of HPAI, raised an entirely different concern in a recent interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity.

"All of my agencies have recommended against the vaccination of birds," said Kennedy, "because if you vaccinate with a leaky vaccine — in other words, a vaccine that does not provide sterilizing immunity, that does not absolutely protect against the disease — you turn those flocks into mutation factories."

"They're teaching the organism how to mutate," continued Kennedy. "And it's much more likely to jump to animals if you do that."

Kennedy indicated that the agency heads at the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration have suggested that vaccinating chickens "is dangerous for human beings."

'Those should be the birds that we breed.'

Not only did the HHS secretary advocate against vaccinating birds, he cast doubt on the value of culling flocks, suggesting that "you should let the disease go through them."

The culling operations cost Americans both at the grocery store and in their taxes.

The federal government pays poultry producers market value of the birds they are directed to cull. Farmers do not alternatively receive compensation for animals that die of the virus. As of January, over 1,200 producers received these federal indemnity payments, costing taxpayers over $1.1 billion.

Governing.com reported that 67 companies that have received indemnity payment have had at least two infections. There have been 18 facilities with three or more outbreaks. Since 2023, half of these payments have reportedly gone to just a handful of giant corporations.

Rather than shell out more money to kill flocks, delay the acquisition of immunity, and possibly incentivize complacency where biosecurity is concerned, Kennedy suggested, "We should be testing therapeutics on those flocks; they should isolate them; you should let the disease go through them; and identify the birds that survive, which are the birds that probably have a genetic inclination for immunity — and those should be the birds that we breed."

Kennedy intimated that shoppers should not be concerned about consuming eggs or poultry products from a bird population where HPAI is endemic. After all, the CDC has indicated that "cooking poultry and eggs to an internal temperature of 165˚F kills bacteria and viruses, including avian influenza A viruses."

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Ivy league professor says it's 'bad science' to define human sex as a binary based on sperm and ova production



Princeton University professor Agustín Fuentes wrote an opinion piece for Scientific American contending that it is "bad science" to suggest that human sex is a binary biological concept based on whether an indiviual produces male of female gametes.

"This is bad science. The production of gametes does not sufficiently describe sex biology in animals, nor is it the definition of a woman or a man," Fuentes wrote. "Given what we know about biology across animals and in humans, efforts to represent human sex as binary based solely on what gametes one produces are not about biology but are about trying to restrict who counts as a full human in society."

Fuentes claimed that inaccurate representations of biology are being wielded to target women and transgender people.

"So when someone states that 'An organism’s sex is defined by the type of gamete (sperm or ova) it has the function of producing' and argues that legal and social policy should be 'rooted in properties of bodies,' they are not really talking about gametes and sex biology. They are arguing for a specific political, and discriminatory, definition of what is 'natural' and 'right' for humans based on a false representation of biology," he wrote.

"Over the past few centuries this process of misrepresentation of biology was, and still is, used to deny women rights and to justify legal and societal misogyny and inequity, to justify slavery, racialization, racism and to enforce multiple forms of discrimination and bias. Today dishonest ascriptions of what biology is are being deployed to restrict women’s bodily autonomy, target LGBTQIA+ individuals broadly and, most recently, attack the rights of transexual and transgender people," he claimed.

Fuentes, who is an anthropologist, is the author of the book, "Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You" — according to a book description, he characterizes the idea that men and women have different "behavior, desires, and wiring," as a myth.

"The bottom line is that while animal gametes can be described as binary (of two distinct kinds), the physiological systems, behaviors and individuals that produce them are not," he wrote in the opinion piece. "For humans, sex is dynamic, biological, cultural and enmeshed in feedback cycles with our environments, ecologies and multiple physiological and social processes," he claimed.

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