Bird flu has depopulated turkey farms in the UK, will it be an expensive holiday

Avian flu has already killed half of the free-range turkeys in the UK. The end of the epidemic is not in sight, meanwhile Christmas is approaching, during which the traditional dish is roasted turkey, reports the Bavarian Agricultural Weekly. As officially announced by the British Poultry Council, the British Poultry Council, as many as 600,000 out of a total of 1.2 million free-range turkeys have been killed and disposed of in the British Isles so far. Such poultry was very popular with consumers during the holiday season, because a special occasion was an argument for buying more expensive meat, but of higher quality. Closed farms in the UK are less affected by avian influenza than free range farms. Producers and breeders' trade organizations reassure that shortages on store shelves before Christmas are not a threat to the British. A ...