- 2013 – Nearly one million chickens and turkeys are boiled alive as well each year in U.S. slaughterhouses, often because fast-moving lines fail to kill the birds before they are dropped into scalding water (2013 estimate). An annual average of 825,000 chickens and 18,000 turkeys died this way, USDA public reports show, representing less than 1 percent of the total processed. [Backup]
- 2018/09 Bad News for Slaughter-Bound Birds. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced its reckless plan to let chicken slaughterhouses apply to increase their slaughter line speeds from the already questionably fast rate of 140 birds per minute to 175 birds per minute.
- 2018/11 New Investigation Highlights Dangers of High-Speed Slaughter.
- 2019. “According to the USDA, over half a million chickens drowned in scalding tanks in 2019. That’s 1,400 birds every day.” (by The Humane League).
- 2019/06 Poor manure management on a farm led to the Tarragona fire on a chicken farm. In the photo, burned sheep and a survivor. (“La mala gestión del estiércol en una granja originó el fuego de Tarragona en una granja de pollos. En la foto, ovejas abrasadas y una superviviente“).
- 2019/07 One hundred thousand chickens died in a fire in Groningen Kiel-Windeweer.
- 2019/10 25,000 chickens die in a fire on a farm in Granada, Spain (“Mueren 25.000 pollos en un incendio en una granja en Granada“).
- 2020/05 Gruesome Footage Shows Pigs Roasted Alive at Iowa’s Leading Pork Supplier Amid Coronavirus Crisis.
Other places
- 2017/02 In China every day thousands of male ducklings are boiled to death in caldrons. Since they don’t lay eggs, they are deemed useless. Their bodies are sold to snake breeders to feed the snakes. In America male baby chicks are suffocated in plastic bags or ground up in macerators. Their lives are “useless” too. Daily Mail 2/22/2017.
- 2018/10 Shocking Footage Reveals Slaughterhouse Workers Boiling Pigs Alive in Australia.
