Henry Cuellar: “Just this year alone, we've seen over 35 million birds have…”

“You know, first of all, we've had a flu, the avian flu since 2022 that where we've seen over 166 million birds that have been slaughtered because of this flu. That's 166 million birds. Just this year alone, we've seen over 35 million birds have been slaughtered. One reason, another factor is increases in production costs, fuel feud, labor costs have gone up. A third reason is this uneven tariffs and trade policies that we have.” (00:31–00:38)

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