About 30,000 farmed ducks were killed using firefighting foam as part of the Victorian government’s effort to contain bird flu, a method Animal Justice party MP Georgie Purcell has condemned as “nothing short of barbaric”.
The state’s agriculture minister, Ros Spence, confirmed Agriculture Victoria used Phos-Chek, a class-A foam, while responding to a highly contagious strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, which emerged earlier this year at several poultry farms.
