http://www.kcci.com/news/des-moines-pitches-in-with-bird-flu-disposal-efforts/33116758
The city of Des Moines is pitching in to help with the bird flu cleanup.
The Des Moines Public Works has property that can hold a sprawling 10 acres of dumping ground for the city’s unwanted trees.
But instead of the city paying to have the massive pile of mulch hauled off to a landfill, truckers are traveling to Des Moines to pick it up and deliver the wood waste to communities in northwest Iowa fighting the bird flu.
Massive mounds of mulch are stacking up and private contractors are hauling it off.
When one bed is full, the next truck is waiting to move in.
Matt Ohlson covered more than 800 miles alone on Tuesday transporting Des Moines’ dumped wood to Iowa counties hit by the bird flu.
“It’s good for me because I get the steady haul-in. And it’s great for the city because they get an easy way out,” Ohlson said.
Iowa has 60 confirmed cases of the avian flu. The number of chickens dead or dying is about 26 million.
The city of Des Moines is donating 2,000 cubic yards of wood waste used to help poultry farms dispose of birds infected with the disease.
Public Works is saving $50,000 by cutting out its landfill costs.
“We’ve got a great win-win situation [the only losers so far? The birds.]
Exposing the Big Game 
Yes, the biggest losers, unless you listen to the people whining that eggs might cost more. There seems to be no recognition in most articles that the birds are living beings who have suffered through their whole short lives as egg and meat producers and now suffer with the flu until their fast journey to the land fill or the incinerators.