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edit: leaving my original typed comment in place above. But I found this - https://texasfarmbureau.org/usda-approves-first-h5n1-vaccine...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-the-bungled-bir...
https://drgnews.com/2024/10/23/south-dakota-company-to-test-...
[1] - https://www.kvpr.org/health/2024-10-11/photos-of-dead-cattle...
These farms are inhumane for the animals, and they exist as a fragile ecosystem at risk of bacterial or viral outbreaks. In nature, plants and animals coexist with insects and microorganisms in ways which are more robust to catastrophic collapse. But these cattle farms are like agricultural monocrops - dead dirt and one kind of creature, fed by machines and vulnerable to the rapid spread of disease and sickness. It’s bad for the animals and it’s bad for us.
So you’re absolutely right, this should not exist!
Ahh USA, where the standards for the meat industry are obnoxiously low.
If you're eating cattle/red meat, do it right - buy fresh, don't touch frozen and always go for grassfed. That itself makes it much safer than eating chicken (which is more likely to be factory-farmed) or eating fish (which is more prone to chemical contamination these days).