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New ‘Uncounted’ report explores chicken death rates on factory farms; 500 million die before slaughter

AnimalEquality.net

A new report by Animal Equality—titled Uncounted—examines the chicken mortality rate on U.S. By analyzing data reported by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 2021, Animal Equality breaks down the death rates of chickens raised for meat at all stages of life—from hatchery to transportation trucks.

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

The "animal rights" focus, by contrast, is on our allegedly "cruel" treatment of individual animals in various specific, carefully selected and isolated contexts, from laboratory mice to farm mink to market hogs to broiler chickens, or whatever may be their next cause du jour , chosen specifically for getting the most uncritical media coverage and (..)