Over ten million chicks have been euthanized in the past two months United States. As many pigs should experience the same fate. Due to Covid-19 employee cases, Uncle Sam’s slaughterhouses have been idling for two months. A study by Purdue University in Indiana estimates that slaughtering and processing the hog industry works at 40% of its usual yield.
“Inhuman” methods
During this time, the pigs pile up on the farms … and get bigger! The system is calibrated for animals of a certain size
Heather Hill, a breeder from Indiana, told American public radio. And once the 130 kg is exceeded, the pigs are too big for the machine and become unsaleable
. Thus, the Professional Council estimates that by September, 10 million pigs will have to be slaughtered, then cremated, without going through the bacon box.
But the question of this depopulation
, a term consecrated by the American livestock giants, is now being asked. The factory farms were able to silently euthanize all these chicks, but the problem is quite different with pigs over 130 kg. If the techniques vary from the nail gun to the overdose, the industry is moving towards global suffocation, for the sake of profitability. So, just turn off the fans of the farms and leave the CO2 make its effect, or even add a little. Qualified methods inhuman
by animal rights associations. Food NGOs denounce this massive slaughter even thoughone in ten Americans is food insecure.
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