Inside Britain’s Christmas turkey crisis as 3.5m birds culled due to 'worst ever' outbreak - sparking shortage fears
BRITAIN could face a Christmas turkey crisis as 3.5 million birds are culled due to "worst ever" outbreak of flu.3
Steve Childerhouse is being forced to cull an entire flock of 100,000 turkeys - which were set to be on dinner platesShortage fears have been sparked after 155 turkey farms have recorded cases of avian flu in their birdsThe UK produces around 11 million turkeys annually - but a third of those have been put down this year.
Highly contagious, the virus has wiped out a huge supply in the run-up to the festivities with concerns ofExpected to cause "holy carnage" James Mottershead, chairman of the National Farmers’ Union , said the reality of the situation is severe.: “If bird flu, for example, gets into turkeys that could cause holy carnage; that could cause real supply chain issues in the run-up to Christmas time.
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