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Fire that killed 1.3 million chickens in Illinois (i.imgur.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Animal agriculture kills something like 200 million chickens a day. They all live short miserable lives anyway, this hardly stands out to me.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You're not completely wrong, but image of being burned alive is quite striking to me

For anyone curious about the previous commenter's stat

For chickens, the daily count is extremely large – 202 million chickens every day. To comprehend the scale, it is better to bring it down to the average minute: 140,000 chickens are slaughtered every minute.

https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-get-slaughtered-every-day

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I guess it is quite striking, it's a shame any are killed under bad conditions.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

You’re not completely wrong, but image of being burned alive is quite striking to me

I would imagine most of them would have died of asphyxiation?