Japan has lost so many chickens to bird flu, it’s now running out of land to bury them
. Japanese state broadcaster NHK reported Tuesday that 16 out of 26 prefectures in the country did not have enough land to dispose of culled birds properly. All 26 had reported experiencing avian flu outbreaks recently. While local authorities and farms usually kill and bury the animals to prevent further spread of the virus, the land shortage has now held back those efforts, according to NHK.
5 times higher than the reference year of 2007, and have increased more than 100% since this time last year,” wrote Nan-Dirk Mulder, Rabobank’s senior analyst of animal protein. The situation has spurred some people around the world to buy their own hens to secure their own supplies of the pantry staple. In Japan, egg prices reached a 10-year high of 235 yen last month, according to Rabobank.
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