Agriculture Reference
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univ. of arkansas:
“if you grew as fast as a
chicken, you'd weigh 349
pounds at age 2.”
muscle
outpaces bone development,
leading to skeletal weakness and
leg deformities.
at any given
moment, 2.5 million u.s.
chickens have difficulty
walking and experience
pain.
le
sows used
for breeding are
customarily confined
in crates during their
near-constant cycles of
pregnancies and nursing—
unable even to turn around.
their
piglets are
mutilated without
any pain relief
—castrated,
teeth clipped, ear notched,
and tail docked.
cows are cyclically
overtaxed to maximize
industry milk yields. dr. john
webster of the univ. of bristol
school of veterinary science:
“the amount of work done by
the cow in peak lactation is
immense. to achieve a
comparable high work rate a
human would have to jog for
about 6 hours a day,
every day.”
(agri)
business
as usual
at the hatchery,
turkey chicks are typically
mutilated without any pain
relief—procedures including
de-snooding (slicing off the
fleshy protuberance over the
bird's beak), de-toeing, and
de-beaking
—before they, like
chickens raised for meat,
are
overcrowded in
barren sheds.
in the u.s. catfish
farming industry—the
largest sector of domestic
aquaculture, comprising
approximately 83.4% of all fish
farmed in the country and
raising
more than 1.1 billion
animals annually—mortality
due to infectious disease
can approach 30% of
the population.
an egg-laying hen
needs an average of
120 in
2
of space to turn
around, 137 in
2
to stretch
her wings, 177 in
2
to ruffle
her feathers, and 220 in
2
to
flap her wings. on factory farms,
she is given an average of
67 in
2
of space for the
entirety of her
“productive” life.
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includes bans on eggs from caged laying hens, pork from produc-
ers who use gestation crates, and veal from producers who use
veal crates. Fast-food giants Burger King and Wendy's, among oth-
ers, recently announced a number of corporate policies to improve
farmed animal welfare, including purchasing some of its eggs
from producers who do not confine hens in cages as well as some
pork from producers who do not confine sows in gestation crates,
and giving purchasing preference for chicken meat from plants
