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Fires on large-scale animal farms, or factory farms, are surprisingly common. Over the last decade, at least 6.5 million farmed animals, mostly chickens, perished in barn fires in the US, according to Washington, DC-based nonprofit Animal Welfare Institute (AWI).

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I drove thru a series of CAFOs once between Liberal, Ks and Dalton Tx and it was shocking how many cows are there right next to the highways. The infrastructure of cattle cars and dedicated rail, "processing" slaughter houses and shit lagoons was in plain sight and it was so horrifying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I’ve driven there too, it literally looks like a hellscape.