Court Confirms Culling by Suffocation Legal
SCOTLAND - A legal ruling has confirmed that in an outbreak of avian flu, poultry may be euthanased by suffocation if other methods have been ruled out.
8 October 2008
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The High Court has upheld the legality of new rules allowing chickens to be killed in their thousands by slow suffocation in the event of a widespread bird flu outbreak, reports The Scotsman newspaper.
A judge ruled that the government was entitled to use 'ventilation shutdown' as a last resort.
