ASTEN, Netherlands (Reuters) - Two years ago, Dutch farmer Pieter van Lierop had to kill his 7,000 chickens with poison gas during a bird flu outbreak. He is prepared to take drastic action to make sure that will not happen again.
Van Lierop's farm in Asten in the southern heartland of the Dutch poultry sector was among the 1,300 farms forced to cull 30.7 million birds to contain the virus that led to one human death in one of the world's top poultry-exporting countries.
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