Ban burning and burying of animals in US Covid-19 farm culls, NGOs urge

As coronavirus forces many farmers to cull their animals on-farm, burying animals in unlined pits or burning them in open air pyres could pose risk to the public, activists argueAs the row over mass animal cullings in the US continues, public and environmental health NGOs are asking the government to ban two livestock carcass disposal methods - burying in unlined pits and burning in open air pyres - until the Covid-19 pandemic is "resolved".Risks to the public from the methods, say the groups, include increased air pollutants such as carcinogenic compounds, or bacterial and fecal matter leaking into local water ways. Continue reading...