Up Next: Snake Flu

“Thousands of ducklings deemed unfit for human consumption following China’s latest bird flu outbreak are being sold as live snake food. Poultry farmers have resorted to selling truckloads of the newly-hatched ducklings to snake farms for a few pence each after 14 deaths in China were blamed on the lethal H7N9 virus. One duck farmer said of the creatures’ unpleasant fate: ‘It’s either this or we just gas them all’.”