I was very reluctant to take such a recommendation to cabinet. But the do-nothing approach is no longer an option. We have to act on culling as a management option.
Quotes about culling (13 Quotes)
We're facing a serious crisis that may end up culling some of the very best people out of the biomedical research enterprise. There will be people who lose all funding or have gaps in funding so they can't maintain the infrastructure they've built.
Culling of chickens will continue today and tomorrow.
I am saying that the recent activities by Turkey's Ministry of Agriculture, particularly the culling and communication work, is good.
While the costs of dealing with this have so far been limited to around 0.1 percent of GDP, from culling birds and implementation of better animal health surveillance systems, the potential impact of a serious pandemic is of grave concern.
Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.
Detecting and culling infected birds is still the key, and for that we have to compensate the owners of chicken whose flocks are killed. And we have to limit interaction between humans and birds, which is a huge challenge within an environment where people are used to living very close to their chickens.
Alan Paller, director of the SANS Institute in Bethesda, Md., isn't so optimistic about how the new money would be used, however. My concern would be the skill with which Washington consultants and IT vendors in particular might package every pet project as 'security-enhancing,' ... If there were a tough, rational culling process ... I'd be a fan.
Oh, yes, people have seriously proposed some kind of culling method. It would take an act of Congress for something like that to take effect.
When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.
These are birds that are already endangered, and any further pressure either from the virus itself or misguided attempts to control it through culling would be disastrous.
Infected poultry should be reported immediately and all internationally recommended control measures should be used in outbreak areas, including humane culling, strict isolation and, if and when appropriate, vaccination.
Deaths of wild fowl continue to occur, although less intensively. In Russia, we intend to keep the current situation within the existing framework, and will try to reduce the affected area through culling all domestic birds until wild fowl leave the country.