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The USDA-approved lab authorized to test the milk for the H5N1 bird flu virus called the farms to seek their permission to examine the milk, then also declined to test the milk for bird flu when the farmers did not grant it.

“[The farms] are aware of what a nonnegative test would do to their business,” said Brandon Dominguez, the Veterinary Services Section Head at the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic laboratory in College Station, Texas. “They asked that we do not run the test.”

After NPR reported that the USDA had confirmed the agency does not require labs to have permission from farms to test milk samples for bird flu, Amy Swinford, the director of the Texas A&M lab, added that another reason the lab could not perform the test is that reporters did not provide the premise identification numbers for each of the farms. Those numbers are not publicly available; reporters did include the license numbers of each of the farms when they submitted samples for testing.

The lab and the farms’ refusal to test samples of raw milk comes as scientists have criticized the federal government for being slow to collect and report information about the virus. There has been no widespread testing of dairy workers to understand how many may be infected, no mandate that dairy farms test their herds if they aren’t moving cattle between states, and no clear testing data to support federal authorities’ warnings of a potential threat of bird flu in raw milk that people drink.

Head in the sand: what could go wrong?

Bulletins and News Discussion from May 20th to May 26th, 2024 - Never Break TrueAnon's Rules For Life - COTW: Azerbaijan by chicory in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] chicory@hexbear.net 69 points 5 months ago

Hope this fucker is travelling by helicopter

Based Greta by chicory in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] chicory@hexbear.net 48 points 5 months ago

This level of slop makes me sometimes wonder what context the author is operating in. Like is this a Sunday night "oh shit I need something for deadline" or did they spend a couple days on this?

I hope this is Brendan quiet quitting. Minimum effort. "Greta is a land of contrasts" level shit. But, he's probably worked on this for awhile.

Dr. Jill Stein says she is going to the ER after arrest at student protest by chicory in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] chicory@hexbear.net 85 points 6 months ago

Fucking cops. Reminds me of this from 2020:

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Democratic congressmen unveil bill to rename a federal prison after Trump (web.archive.org)

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Nice to see US leadership continue to work on things that matter.

Bulletins and News Discussion from April 1st to April 7th, 2024 - The Heydey of Juche - COTW: Democratic People's Republic of Korea by chicory in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] chicory@hexbear.net 52 points 7 months ago

The evolution of the Nuremberg defense

Bulletins and News Discussion from March 25th to March 31st, 2024 - Friendship Ended With Taiwan, Now China Is My New Best Friend - COTW: Honduras by chicory in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] chicory@hexbear.net 62 points 7 months ago

Hot on the heels of Air Canada's AI chat bot making up policies, NYC is following suit, giving illegal advice in response to questions:

The problem, however, is that the city’s chatbot is telling businesses to break the law.

Five months after launch, it’s clear that while the bot appears authoritative, the information it provides on housing policy, worker rights, and rules for entrepreneurs is often incomplete and in worst-case scenarios “dangerously inaccurate,” as one local housing policy expert told The Markup.

https://archive.is/n9XF3

Bulletins and News Discussion from March 25th to March 31st, 2024 - Friendship Ended With Taiwan, Now China Is My New Best Friend - COTW: Honduras by chicory in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] chicory@hexbear.net 57 points 7 months ago

Critical support to... the White House Press Corp for apparently nonstop theft from Air Force One:

Everyone, it appears, is pilfering from Air Force One. And it’s gotten so bad that last month, NBC correspondent KELLY O’DONNELL, the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, included a terse reminder to colleagues that taking items off the plane was not allowed and reflected poorly on the press corps as a whole, several individuals who saw the off-the-record email confirmed.

https://archive.is/dboCM

Bulletins and News Discussion from February 12th to February 18th, 2024 - The Prodigal Failson - COTW: Brazil by chicory in c/news@hexbear.net

[-] chicory@hexbear.net 60 points 8 months ago

Primary Challenger Bankrolled by AIPAC Says Jamaal Bowman Takes Money From Hamas

LMAO we are days away from tunnel accusations