> To be clear, this is a wild avian virus that jumped the species barrier to numerous mammals in the wild now, including marine mammals, with no relationship ever to farming practices.
The rest aside, wasn't the "bird" part of bird flu referring to poultry, mainly? Which presumably would be related to farming practices.
Bird flu makes itself most prominently known in chicken farms, yes, but they are brought there by wild birds.
You could have the cleanest, ethicalest, modernest chicken farm known to man, but there's only so much you can do until a wild disease sees a high population density and says "I'mma infect that".
The rest aside, wasn't the "bird" part of bird flu referring to poultry, mainly? Which presumably would be related to farming practices.